While Memorial Day was this past Monday, today marks what was once an important, similar holiday known as Decoration Day and ...

A former resident of central Pennsylvania has earned a book award for his work documenting the Battle of Gettysburg. Ron Kirkwood was recently named the recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from ...

A letter writer expressed the idea of a “stupid question” regarding the column about how Florida still honors two traitors to ...

While the federal holiday can be a time for families to get together, barbeque and enjoy the newly opened pools, Memorial Day ...

After the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia’s Albemarle County school system set out to combat ...

In 'Behind the Lines', a powerful new documentary narrated by Annette Bening, selections from the Center for American War ...

The first official Memorial Day observance was May 30, 1868 — just three years after the Civil War ended. On what was called ...

Many Americans have loved ones buried in these cemeteries. I have two relatives from the World War II generation at Arlington ...

In 1966, in the final days of the age of innocence, Orlan Love graduated from high school, rocking a crew cut, having never ...

A memo sent by a Department of Government Efficiency member has reportedly sparked a civil war within the Department of the ...

Memorial Day is an appropriate time to reread Abraham Lincoln’s sublime Gettysburg Address honoring Civil War dead.

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.