Two notable Freedmen Conventions took place in North Carolina in 1865 and 1866, where scores of black men gathered at the ...

Many attribute it to the pre-Civil War-era New York newspaperman Horace Greeley, but it may be even older than that. The guidance gained legions of adherents after gold was discovered in Northern ...

Who was Horace Greeley?: He was the founder-editor of The New York Tribune and an outspoken critic of Grant, a former Popular ...