The city of St. Cloud has passed proclamations to honor “Confederate Memorial Day” but decided to take a pause on issuing ...

By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen May 28, 2025 In the 1983 classic film, “Trading Places,” Louis Winthorpe III and Billy ...

By Ben Finley, Associated Press contributed to this story.

While many American towns claim to have held the earliest celebrations of the holiday, U.S. officials declared Waterloo, New York the "birthplace" of Memorial Day. Historians say residents closed ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — 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 anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend ...

President Trump wants to reframe how the country's stories are told. But historians are pushing back, saying the administration's actions amount to an attack on core institutions — and on history ...

The facts are well-known ... There were thousands of American flags on the march, even some confederate flags. At one point a huge part of the rally rose to sing “God Bless America.” ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Long Island fire departments accused of displaying Confederate flags and enforcing discriminatory membership policies agreed to settlements with the New York State ...

The Levittown Fire Department and Fire District is one of three Long Island fire departments that will pay fines and change policies for displaying Confederate flags on its property and ...

Complaints were lodged against the Brookhaven and Levittown departments for displaying Confederate flags on fire department property, and complaints about discriminatory membership policies and ...

At the time the Confederate flag went up, the county really didn’t have a maximum height rule in place for flags. That changed after the Prince ... series of violations arising from the same set of ...