A boy born into slavery in South Carolina was separated from his family at age five and later reunited with his father in ...

Even coming to Washington as a member of the Congress ... half emancipated after the Civil War. Final emancipation, final meaning to the promise of the first Reconstruction, doesn't come until ...

Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical ... to the South and African-American civil ...