O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and cardboard ...

This battle featured several units of ... of Virginia battlefield lands associated with the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. No applications for sites associated with ...

Lawyers for immigrants said they have been preparing for months for the possibility of large-scale workplace raids, roundups ...

The Droop Mountain Battlefield became the first West Virginia State Park and part of the Civil War Discovery Trail, now known ...

This Congressional Gold Medal was awarded on December 17, 1863 to General Grant after his victory at Vicksburg. The battle of Vicksburg was a turning point for the Union Army. The siege lasted six ...

The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory. It shattered illusions that ...

These warriors came to embody Black Civil War service, if not African American patriotism. As the war raged, Sergeant Major ...

The popular “Yellowstone” TV series, set and filmed in Montana, taps into a lesser-known chapter of the state’s history: its settlement by Confederates and ex-Confederates during and after the Civil ...

Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and hawks and doves all realized that there were limits to American power. Then came the collapse of the Soviet Union, the dissolution of the ...