More than 160 years after Harriet Tubman led Union troops on a raid on Combahee Ferry in South Carolina, freeing more than ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

Contributed Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, R-Jefferson City, center, holds up a Missouri flag flown over the state Capitol alongside ...

One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as ...

In 2023, a statue to commemorate the United States Troops was erected in Pulaski, TN — an effort led by Vivian Sims.

On Nov. 15, 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM’-seh) Sherman began ...

"It's amazing that they were still there and we found them," said Tom Keating, coordinator for the Missing In America Project ...

When West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, the Civil War was still raging, meaning that even though it was no longer ...

New Jersey firefighters are working to protect homes and a historic landmark where iron for the country's first soldiers was ...

Harriet Tubman was posthumously commissioned as brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard at a Veteran’s Day ceremony.

MITCHELL — Hundreds of veterans, their friends and their families gathered at the Davison County Fairgrounds Monday during ...