For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him. For more than a century, this Black soldier from ...

When visitors and local researchers in the Netherlands realized earlier last month that two panels honoring Black American soldiers who helped liberate Europe from the Nazis had disappeared from the U ...

White and Native American men gather at the Camp Weld peace conference in September 1864. Kneeling at front right is Silas Soule, the cavalry captain who would later stand his men down at the Sand ...

To celebrate America’s 250th birthday we’re joined by Dr. Shirley Green to discuss Black soldiers of the American Revolution. The Journal is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

The attempted erasure of Black history within the U.S. military has gotten itself into a quagmire of resistance in a land far away and a time long ago, back to the days of Jim Crow. In 2024, the ...

I didn’t grow up in a baking household. As the Asian immigrant lore goes, our oven (and dishwasher, while we’re at it) was, indeed, used primarily for storage. That isn’t to say that we didn’t love ...

Honoring local Black soldiers who fought for freedom during the Civil War. The Berlin police chief donated a special GI-Joe figurine to be part of a display to highlight the contributions of those ...

“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown Jeremy Helligar is Deputy Editorial Director at PEOPLE and an author (Is It True What ...

The visitors center at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten. (Rob Engelaar/Getty Images) The Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten, the only American military ...

In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers, were tasked with ...

A memorial recognizing Black WWII soldiers was quietly taken down at a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Dutch media reports that two informational panels about African American soldiers in ...