The remains, used in the 19th century as part of now discredited racial science, are being laid to rest on Saturday in a ...

Dillard University will honor and memorialize 19 individuals whose crania were taken from New Orleans and sent to Leipzig, Germany, for racially-biased science in the 1880s.

Harry Humason, who helped liberate Europe from the Nazis, was shocked when hundreds of grateful Czech citizens donated to pay for his travels.

After more than 150 years in Germany, the remains of 19 Black people, taken for racist scientific research, have been ...

By the late 1800s, many more cities and communities observed Memorial Day, and several states had declared it a legal holiday. After World War I, it became an occasion for honoring those who died ...

Nearly 13,000 soldiers died at this Civil War site. Andersonville National Historic Site is preserving their memory.

On a rainy September morning at Georgia's Spence Field, a new memorial was dedicated to 62 young airmen who died in WWII flight training-just a fraction of the estimated 13,000–15,000 who never made ...

NYT best-selling author Robert M. Edsel, who also wrote ‘The Monuments Men’, speaks to WGN Radio’s Dave Plier about his new book ‘Remember Us’, an ensemble piece that follows twelve ...