It was more than a decade ago when a United States naval ship was named after civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers. However ...

A week after Pentagon leaders announced their intention to possibly rename the USNS Medgar Evers, his family urged the Department of Defense and the Navy to reverse their position.

The ship is one of eight vessels named after activists – among them Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and ...

The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signs nationwide asking visitors for feedback ...

Smaller celebrations and related activities were held across the country in the weeks leading up to the Army’s 250th birthday ...

Arlington National Cemetery honors the Army's 250th anniversary by celebrating its Revolutionary War connections.

Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 400k, with grave sites honoring those who served in every major war in US history.

Seven Army bases whose names were changed in 2023 because they honored Confederate leaders are all reverting back to their original names.

And, we discuss and judge each other over Memorial Day weekend about whether it should be solemn or celebratory or a ...

Arlington National Cemetery wasn’t always a cemetery at all. The land once belonged to the family of Confederate General ...

President Donald Trump delivered a Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday that combined solemn ...

senior historian at Arlington National Cemetery. "Memorial Day is a solemn day, a day of mourning and remembrance," Finkelstein said. "We trace it to the Civil War, a conflict that tore our nation ...