On a hot summer’s day in 1936, a military coup trying to overthrow the government escalated into one of the most important historical events leading to the rise of fascism in Europe: The Spanish Civil ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy ...

with a few DOJ attorneys in this unit finding new law firm gigs lately but others still searching for a landing spot. DOJ civil rights attorneys “tend to face more headwinds” in their job ...

At a Memorial Day ceremony, hundreds of people honored their sacrifices with an outdoor mass and Civil War era music. “I think it’s the best way we can help represent what they did,” said ...

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865. The first national ...

Local historian and author Robert Russell gave the Memorial Day address, detailing the life of Civil War Medal of Honor recipient Cpl. Henry Casey, who is buried in the Bloomingburg Cemetery and ...

The City of Fredonia recently received a landmark sign to recognize the site of a historic part of the Black Patch War of the early 1900s. The marker is located at the now Buddy Rogers Park, but was ...

This marker consisted of a metal tablet on a post, “placed along U.S. Highway 90 at San Lucas Creek, near the Bexar-Medina county line, 0.3 miles west of FM 1604,” according to a Dec. 23, 2006 ...

Drew Gruber, former executive director at Civil War Trails for the past decade, announced May 15 on “Emerging Civil War” that he would be the inaugural manager of Virginia’s newest state park, ...

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) claims that it destroyed a Myanmar junta transport helicopter, which crash-landed following an ambush in Kachin State. KIA troops bombed the helicopter on a football ...