In the 1840s, Parker was denied admission to the New York State bar, despite meeting all the requirements and training to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s ...

At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of State William H. Seward, who – according to historians – told the Seneca leader the ...

A Seneca Nation leader from the Tonawanda Band of Seneca and Civil War general is set to become the first-ever Native ...

Ely Samuel Parker, a Native American who served as an aide to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was kept from practicing ...

Some 500 pieces of American history unseen even by scholars are coming to light through an auction taking place through Fleischer’s Auctions of Columbus. The two-day auction, “Civil War & African ...

This coming Wednesday, April 9, our great Union of states will officially be celebrating the 160th Anniversary of the official End of the Civil War with General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Lieutenant ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious ...

Ahead of the PBS production's premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...