An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864–1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park superintendent, th

Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African American men were seldom permitted to join the United States armed forces. There had been time

“A work of extraordinary imagination and sympathy, a journey from slavery to the mountaintop, perfectly realized.” —Ken Burns, American filmmaker Born on

The town of Skagway was born in 1897 after its population quintupled in under a year due to the Klondike gold rush. Balanced on the edge of anarchy, the U.S. Ar