U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy said the removals violated his prior order that migrants be given time to challenge their ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial ...

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

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 ...

During CNBC’s Squawk Box Monday, co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty about the president’s recent ...

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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.