Lydia Maria Child was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and women's rights activist. Child's work was very influential in the 19th century before t

Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"--assumed the Hercul

The Freedmen's Bureau was an extraordinary agency established by Congress in 1865, born of the expansion of federal power during the Civil War and the Union's d