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When the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment formed in 1863, 82 recruits from County joined the nation's first all-Black ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

At a Memorial Day ceremony, hundreds of people honored their sacrifices with an outdoor mass and Civil War era music. “I think it’s the best way we can help represent what they did,” said ...

(ABC 6 News) – Volunteers and members of the Third Iowa Light Artillery unit of Civil War re-enactors led a unique salute to our nation’s fallen soldiers this memorial day weekend, firing roun ...

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865. The first national ...

Many in Syria want to enshrine remnants of their recent history, not only to remember it, but as a cautionary tale.

But, with its brand-new exhibition Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Imperial War Museum shines a blazing light on “the most neglected war crime”, as described by the Sunday Times ...

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to ...