The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in ...

In Gaza and Africa, U.S. contracting firms led by former American intelligence and military officers are taking on aid ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Tanks and thousands of troops are on the streets of Washington, D.C., for the Army's 250th anniversary on President Donald Trump's birthday.

The Army is celebrating its 250th anniversary with a parade on Saturday, which happens to be President Donald Trump’s 79th ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...

President Donald Trump has already eroded many of the U.S.’s democratic safeguards and traditions in the initial months of ...

Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse in the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay.

The charity One (Organisation for National Ex-Service Personnel) has confirmed its staff is providing support services to the soldiers who ... gradually worse as the war went on as there was ...

(Though back then, there were no censors reading soldiers’ letters.) Everything changed in February ... Of the 3.1 million Americans, North and South, who served in that war, it’s believed that up to ...

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has described the Nigerian Civil War period (from 6 July 1967 to 15 January 1970) as the most difficult period of his life. Gowon made this known on ...