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 ...

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.

When soldiers of the South massed around Richmond at the beginning of the Civil War, the city needed more ... TV show "M*A*S*H," and modern medical record-keeping were among the accomplishments ...

Ron Kirkwood was recently named the recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable for ... The book examines the stories of soldiers who were treated at the ...

It was May 30, 1868, more than three years after the end of the Civil War, when General Order 11 ... “He was known by his soldiers as “Black Jack” because of his black eyes and hair and ...

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, began after the American Civil War as a way to honor fallen soldiers ... This is the third straight year of record-breaking travel for this holiday ...