A pearl of wisdom here, a comment there, by authors at the Gaithersburg Book Festival.

About 500,000 left slavery during the Civil War. As Chandra Manning's new book details, they took enormous risks in their search for freedom.

Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office was lost for decades. Here's how it was found.

Paragraph 6 of the Emancipation Proclamation ushered in a new era. Here's how.

At Signature Theatre in Arlington, high school students learn how century-old suffrage protests resonate today.

Abolitionists sought to "grab your wallet" through non-slave labor products like sorghum.

The story behind 6 Mathew Brady photos of Civil War, Alexandria.

I took part in a November 19 ceremony to inaugurate a historical marker at the location of L'Ouverture Hospital in Alexandria.

I (and Julia Wilbur, in spirit) tagged along on a National Women's History Museum walking tour of Alexandria Civil War women.

The post-war connections between John Singleton Mosby and Ulysses S. Grant, according to a recent book by David Goetz.

Post-War reconciliation? Historian Caroline Janney offers a different view.

The story of Arlandria, from rural outpost to diverse urban neighborhood, presented by University of Mary Washington professor Krystyn Moon.

Char McCargo Bah explained how she found descendants from among more than 1,750 people buried in Alexandria's Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery--who can now celebrate their ancestors, many of whom escaped slavery.