Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | HSP is one of the nation's largest nongovernmental repositories of documentary materials, housing more than 600,000 books...
Chattanooga National Cemetery
United States Colored Troops (USCT) constructed the Chattanooga National Cemetery and buried their Black and white comrades here — the final resting...
Julia and Ulysses S. Grant House
Julia and Ulysses S. Grant lived in this house between 1849 and 1850 after being married. Grant, who was an army officer at the time, would go on to...
Fort Defiance
Built in late 1861 by Confederate troops with the forced labor of over 300 African Americans, the earthen fort now known as Fort Defiance was built to...
Pocahontas Island
The town of Pocahontas, established in 1752, became part of Petersburg in 1784. By 1860, more members of the city’s large free African American...
Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery and Monument
Pewee Valley, Kentucky | This cemetery is all that remains from the Kentucky Confederate Home, established in 1904.