The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

Garfield, a future American president who was an Ohio congressman ... Originally created in 1868 to honor fallen soldiers of the Civil War, Memorial Day has since expanded to honor all U.S ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

The American Civil War upended these Christian notions of the ... and protect a vast system of national cemeteries. There was no Memorial Day. After the burial of many Union and Confederate ...

Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...

Following World War I, Memorial Day's focus shifted to honor American soldiers who died in any war, not only the Civil War, the History Channel reports.

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers who went to war — have been serving in combat for centuries.

Wiegel — the last Union Civil War veteran to be buried in Westmoreland County — for a Memorial Day ceremony. Civil War veterans group Bray kick-started in September a Westmoreland County ...