African American Civil War Memorial

A student at South Carolina State University asked me to assist him on a presentation he was preparing on the Civil War. I asked him, “In ...

On January 31, 2012 I was one of four panelists at the Necessary Sacrifices Pre-Performance Seminar hosted by the Ford’s Theater Society. ...

Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Reflections” on my most resent blog entry and the related posts, I discovered that people who don’t know I write ...

On National Public Radio (NPR) recently, the black writer that The Atlantic selected to explain why so few blacks study the Civil War decl...

American school children have been taught that President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves on January 1, 1863. However, Lincoln’ s Emancipati...

The United States Capitol Historical Society (USCHC) will host a symposium on “Emancipation during the Civil War” at the Capitol Visi...

This month, I had the pleasure of speaking at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland. One of the attendees was an exceptionally brig...