Lorain County Veterans Service Commission officials deserve credit for purchasing 39 books from the 103rd Ohio Volunteer ...

The first national observance was shortly after the American Civil War and was then called Decoration Day. Veterans decorated ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

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.

Memorial Day is about remembering the men and women who gave their lives for our country. For the past year one Chippewa ...

Hundreds of women secretly joined the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. Some women were brazen enough to enlist as self-appointed officers, or double as female spies. The Truth ...

We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the ...

But how did Memorial Day, held on the last Monday of May in honor of America’s war dead, begin? Here is a refresher: The holiday grew out of the Civil ... both Confederate and Union soldiers.

Most of the 9.7 million soldiers who perished in WWI were killed ... and even automatic weaponry unveiled in the American Civil War, nothing like this thunderous new artillery firepower had ...

One of the ways that African Americans first begin to get access to education is in schools created by the army during the Civil War. Black soldiers ... marked you as an American citizen; and ...

A century after serving in the 39th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, two soldiers are to receive veteran headstones.