It’s been nearly 250 years since Elizabeth Gilmore Berry and her sister, Ann, served as frontline nurses for Gen. George Washington’s army at Valley Forge, during the brutal winter of 1777-78. The ...

“It was a simple idea,” Diane Carlson Evans recalled, marveling at how a project that should have taken no more than two years, in her estimation, required nearly a decade of speech-making and ...

At the moment, the United States is negotiating with a regime that President Trump claimed we had already changed, to open a ...

Families forever shaped by the Civil War gather in Springfield this summer at the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil ...

During the American Civil War, several women disguised themselves as soldiers and were captured by Union forces. This video explores how they were discovered, how they were treated, and what ...

May 25—"Take that, you hog farmers!" "Die, Yankee!" "Go back to Virginia!" These were just some of the colorful hostilities ...

Heart disease is on track to tighten its grip on American women. New projections from the American Heart Association warn that over the next 25 years, cardiovascular disease will rise sharply, driven ...

Not to be confused with Veterans Day which celebrates American veterans (survivors) of war, Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed ...

As Americans gather this Memorial Day for family cookouts, community events, and the unofficial beginning of summer, it is important to pause and remember the true meaning behind the holiday — ...

In 1971, Congress changed Memorial Day from every May 30 to the last Monday in May. Dennis said the creation of the three-day ...

A pivotal change occurred in 1971 when Congress moved Memorial Day from a fixed May 30 to the last Monday of May, creating a three-day weekend ...

Memorial Day, a US national holiday for mourning fallen service members, has increasingly become the known as the unofficial ...