The Center for Public Integrity’s landmark project, 40 Acres and a Lie has taken second place in the annual Philip Meyer ...

Northern aid societies come down to help create schools. The Freedmen's Bureau puts money into creating schools. But most of the schools that spring up are actually created by blacks themselves.

For example, The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (or Freedmen's Bureau), established by Congress on March 3, 1865, has a wealth of searchable information. Established to ...

Oliver Otis Howard, Civil War general; recipient of the Medal of Honor; commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau; among the founders of Howard University (1850) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Civil War ...

ent operations of the Freedman's Bureau throughout the entire South, new fields of labor, involving new outlay, will be open to the association. Advertisement ...