Thomas Wentworth Higginson (22 December 1822-9 May 1911), known through most of his mature life as "Colonel Higginson" because of his Civil War service with black troops, is to be remembered as a man of letters, author, speaker, radical religionist,...

American reformer and editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) led the first black regiment to serve in the Civil War. He also supported women's suffrage and encouraged many female writers. Thomas W. Higginson was born on Dec. 23, 1823, in...

Thomas Wentworth Higginson--reformer, militant abolitionist, politician, religious radical, advocate of equality for blacks and women, speaker, literary critic, military man, and author of everything from sermons and essays on nature to history,...

Horace Seldon teaches history at Boston College, serves as a National Park Ranger for Boston's Black Heritage Trail, and founded Community Change, a Boston-based anti-racist organization. On my desk is a list of over ten nouns, a longer list of adjectives, and a...

After 1877, the American North worked assiduously to forget the deeper meanings of the American Civil War. The practice of "Decorations Day" became, ironically, a ritual of forgetfulness in many Northern communities. An annual decoration of the graves of the Civil War dead,...