Yasmine al-Saleh has two occasions to celebrate this year: the Eid al-Adha holiday and her family's return home after nine ...

When the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment formed in 1863, 82 recruits from County joined the nation's first all-Black ...

A proposal advancing in Lansing would rename a stretch of scenic M-22 after a Michigan company of Native American soldiers who fought in the Civil War. After unanimously passing the Senate earlier ...

A new Civil War trail sign has been installed in Plymouth to honor African-American soldiers who served in the Civil War. The dedication ceremony, held on Satur ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Aid groups and opposition politicians in South Sudan say that dozens of civilians have been killed or badly injured in ...

Bridgewater College awarded over $100,000 in funding for student summer research projects. Waynesboro Public Library ...

The event will also bring more than 9,000 soldiers from around the country to Washington, about 7,000 of whom will march in ...

Syria is potentially “weeks” away from collapse, even though the U.S. recently eased longstanding sanctions on the Middle Eastern nation, ...

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Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that's supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to ...

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.