Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

Before this Civil War site is buried under a new shopping mall, we had one final shot at saving its history. Using the ...

The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated cemetery markers at a Civil War memorial to honor Black soldiers that fought for the ...

Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 ...

Pueblo is known as the Home of Heroes because at one point there were four living Medal of Honor recipients who were natives of the city.

Hundreds convened at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake for its annual Memorial Day service to honor and remember veterans who have died. It was a solemn day of remembrance when ...

Bloomingburg Lodge 449 Free and Accepted Masons conducted its annual Memorial Day service, with Wayne King serving as master ...

Every cannon blast at the Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum serves as a somber reminder of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. At a Memorial Day ceremony, hundreds of people honored ...

Today is Memorial Day, originally known as Decoration Day, traces its roots to the aftermath of the Civil War. Communities across the United States-North and South, Black and White-began the tradition ...