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

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he wants to rename Veterans Day, a federal holiday on November 11, to “Victory Day ...

The new name, “Stalingrad International,” commemorates Soviet WWII victory, reflecting growing Soviet nostalgia and authoritarian symbolism as part of broader efforts to justify Putin’s war in Ukraine ...

More than 160 years after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, echoes of the Civil ...

Visitors to “the Wall” in Washington, D.C., often leave mementos in honor of friends and family who died during the war. We ...

This year marks the 160th anniversary of the end of fighting between the Union and Confederate military. A display of the Civil War in 3D is on display at the Johnson-Shaw Stereoscopic Museum, 423 ...

When Friends of Allegan's Oakwood Cemetery started their work, there were 302 known Civil War veterans in the cemetery. Now, ...

The unmarked graves of 15 Civil War veterans of the Union army will receive headstones at Glendale Cemetery this month, more ...