Peter Hegseth is charging forward on the promise to De-Woke The Military, codified in Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” ...
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
We will remember them.” When her speech ended, a lone soldier played “The Last Post” on his bugle to commemorate the Black servicemen as war dead, 106 years, two months and 11 days after the ...
we’ll take those Black soldiers, send them here.’” Overlooked, by their own military, Black regiments like the Fighting 8th and the Harlem Hellfighters become heroes in France during the ...
A historical marker will be placed at Fort Des Moines this summer to honor the 1,000 thousand black soldiers who trained there to become officers during World War One. Researcher Keith King says ...
Black men enlist for the Fort Des Moines' Officer Training Camp. Historian Don North said he’s got love for three things: history, the military and horses. He could pursue them all as a ...
When he took command of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington barred the further recruitment of black soldiers, despite the fact that they had fought side by side with their white counterparts ...
Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for battle. At the same time, the nation reacted to a conscription law Congress had passed in March, instituting a draft for the first time.