After the Civil War, those torn from loved ones and family members by slaveowners placed newspaper ads in the hope of reunion ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil ... After one of these soldiers died, Bondi read a letter from his parents ...