Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971, but it started in 1868 as Decoration Day. It began as an effort to remember ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

As families prepare to celebrate the three-day Memorial Day weekend with barbecues and trips to the lake, for many the ...

Bounty hunters are a very interesting topic to be covered in movies and there have indeed been extremely successful and ...

A century after serving in the 39th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, two soldiers are to receive veteran headstones.

The cemetery housing the twelve Civil War heroes and their families was adopted by Vietnam veterans, who ensure the upkeep of the land and gravestones. The Mechanicsburg community celebrates the ...

Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard Harvard sued and asked for a restraining order after the Trump administration had said it would block international students from ...

Friends of Shiloh AME Church and Cemetery (FoS) held a poignant ceremony last weekend, recreating a 160-year-old tradition to ...

Ugandan military authorities on Friday accused diplomats from Europe of engaging in subversive activities, in an escalation of tensions over European criticism of human rights violations by Uganda's ...