Memorial Day is May 26 this year. Here is a list of services, events, and local parades. The National Moment of Remembrance ...

The holiday was first observed by communities all over the U.S. following the Civil War, when the nation suffered more than 620,000 military deaths.

The largest pre-Civil War mansion in all of the American South burned to the ground as a devastating fire ripped through the historic wooden structure built nearly 200 years ago. Flames broke out ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their varying stances toward abolition ...

The arrival of about 50 Afrikaners under an executive order that alleges they’ve faced racial discrimination restarts refugee ...

Here are some local Memorial Day weekend events to pay tribute to the soldiers who have given the ultimate sacrifice ...

The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

the great divide between North and South, Christianity, a kind of toxic masculinity. I wanted to understand how these issues persist, why there is still a lot of nostalgia for the Civil War ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In his first appearance as Pope Leo XIV on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, the man born Robert Francis Prevost spoke for 10 minutes in Italian. Then he transitioned to Spanish ...

South Carolina, the soldier carrying the American flag fell. It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of the Civil War. Charging with the 54th was Sgt. William Carney, who saw the colors fall.

If you view the Vietnam War purely through the prism of American defeat, you risk overlooking the deeper meaning of the ...