This simple dish towel was used as a flag of truce by Confederate troops during Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, and is now on display at the ...

In 2017, the flag was flown alongside Nazi and Confederate flags at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. It was flown on Jan. 6, when protestors stormed the U.S. capitol as legislators ...

COLOR GUARD: Anyone looking at images of the Los Angeles immigration protests has almost certainly seen the Mexican flag ...

The Trump administration is implementing an executive order that includes removing certain historical documents, portraits ...

Habitat for Humanity and local leaders gathered on June 12 to formally begin the work on Auman Village, a townhome community ...

By adding a contemporary red cap to Bowser’s original composition, Pyle creates a visual dialogue between the USCT’s fight ...

Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

Several other Juneteenth events are planned throughout MetroWest, including in Natick, Medway and Ashland. Framingham is ...

Find out the interesting history behind all 50 of the U.S. state flags The U.S. state flags, explained The American flag, the Stars and Stripes, Old Glory—whatever you want to call it, there’s ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and ...

In the aftermath of the shooting, people gathered across the nation in vigils and sang “We Shall Overcome.” Forgiveness and ...

Carlo Betti Ricci has run a store in Rimini, Italy, that shows his love for Wyoming and the American West. That includes ...