In this special relic hunt, we visit a Confederate camp and team up with reenactors from the 48th Alabama Infantry to learn how to identify authentic Civil War finds. Their period-accurate gear and ...

U.S. flags should fly at half-staff from sunrise until noon. At noon, flags should be “raised briskly” to the top of the ...

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Memorial Day's history begins after the Civil War. It became a federal holiday in 1971 and is marked with cemetery visits, ...

Clothing as message. Fashion and style as tools, signifiers of culture and identity, whether intentional or assumed.

He looked a lot like Neikoye. Now it’s a warm day in 2023, and 9-year-old Neikoye is sitting on a couch wearing a dark blue Civil War uniform, playing iPad games with his twin sister ...

No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture ... When it was built, America imagined its future enemy would wear a European uniform. When war did come, we met the enemy, only ...

It's "War Eagle," and a suspiciously Hollywood-like origin story suggests that it started during the aforementioned 1892 game with Georgia. An Auburn fan who was also a Civil War veteran is said ...

“It’s hard to believe something [left there nearly 130] years [ago] could be there,” said Christopher George. It's a Civil War presentation sword with a clamshell guard, meaning it wasn't used in ...

Albert Cashier, an Irish immigrant who came to America sometime before the Civil War, watched the 15th Illinois ... the secret and forced him to wear dresses as a woman. The government even ...