Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, ...

This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

Canada has faced multiple annexation attempts by the United States since the 18th century. From the failed American invasion ...

Retired Sergeant First Class Joy Marver, who suffered a traumatic brain injury during a rocket attack in Iraq, was laid off ...

The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...

U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey returns a WWII good luck flag to a fallen Japanese soldier’s family, bringing closure and ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn's West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a trying ...