New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking to have her office removed as defense counsel in four civil cases pending ... Marcy Correctional Facility. Robert L. Brooks was pronounced ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White” tells the tale of a free Black man captured during one of the Alabama’s many raids ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...

The family of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death last month at an upstate New York prison, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against the 17 officers under investigation in the case.

That founding date coincides with the end of the Civil War and its grim disruption ... In the middle of the war, the Smalls founded the York Benevolent Association, initially aiding widows and ...

This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 and 1880. (Library of Congress via AP) In May 1862, during the Civil ...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... But Smalls’ story was too bold and amazing to fade away. In May 1862, during the Civil War, the steel-nerved ship pilot waited for the ship’s white ...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... In May 1862, during the Civil War, the steel-nerved ship pilot waited for the ship's white Confederate crew members to leave the vessel for an ...

One of the forms that war takes is one that happens intra-state, between people of a single country. Civil wars have ravaged many countries over the years. They have permanently changed the political ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) — A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like.

Now we’re getting our first look at what the monument to South Carolina and American hero Robert Smalls will look ... on a Confederate ship during the Civil War … and later served South ...