The African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWM) held its annual Reading of the Names on Nov. 11, honoring more than 200,000 United States Colored Troops. While the event marked a major moment ...

As President Donald Trump reshapes immigration and the nation’s relationship with immigrants, some naturalized citizens are ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

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Honoring the local men and women who served in the military, the annual Veterans Day parade and ceremony took place Tuesday ...

Highland Cemetery sits upon 50 acres on top of a mountain overlooking the beautiful Clinton County landscape, notably the ...

Ken Burns calls the American Revolution our first Civil War. Was it hyperbole or history? Explore the divisions that shaped ...

Florida Republicans are trying for the fourth year in a row to ban political flags atop government buildings, including Pride ...

But either way – responding to crisis or finding a public change of heart – is a reminder that voters are the ultimate arbiters in a functioning democracy. Today, as in late-19th-century America, ...

A local cemetery that is the final resting place of 75 veterans, 35 of them from the Civil War, will have an American flag ...

Trump’s lackey at the helm at the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, issued a memo in which he proposes to scrub several ...

For decades, John Monsky's passion has been collecting American flags – from those that accompanied soldiers during the Civil ...