Jay Cooke's firm had been the government's chief financier of the Union military effort during the Civil War. The firm then became a federal agent in the government financing of railroad construction.

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who has ties to S.C., restored to National Park Service webpage for Underground Railroad after ...

It's the latest government site to see changes amid the Trump administration's effort to purge content promoting diversity, ...

The House Divided Project invited Fergus Bordewich, a Civil War historian, to campus to give the annual Wert Lecture on how the extreme division in the country manifests in Congress by focusing on the ...

page featured a large photo of Tubman, the railroad’s most famous “conductor ... helping free scores of enslaved people during the Civil War period. One historian, Fergus Bordewich ...