However, exclusion from service was yet another area in which people of color in the North were not treated as equals. Morris regularly petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to integrate the ...

At the outset of the conflict, President James Madison ordered the governors of Connecticut and Massachusetts to provide militia detachments for the defense of the maritime frontiers of the United ...

Agrippa Hull was a freeborn black man who served in the Massachusetts militia during the Revolutionary War. In 1828, when Hull was 69 years old, he sought to have his soldier's pension mailed ...

The National Guard is the oldest armed service in the United States and traces back to legislation approved on Dec. 13, 1636.