When the bells ring: Every quarter-hour. The bells ring the Westminster Chime for Sunday services and at weddings. Songs are played on Easter and Christmas Day during the church’s Christmas parade.

In a short span of time, immigrants flooded Hamtramck, a blue-collar town fully within Detroit's borders. And things would never be the same.

My first vivid childhood memory was the day the Japanese attacked ... The horrors of war touched me and my schoolmates when the bells of St. Michael’s Church began their doleful clanging ...

In an 1871 Decoration Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery abolitionist Frederick Douglass said he feared Americans were forgetting the Civil War’s impetus: enslavement. “We must never ...

The origins of Memorial Day can be found in the hearts of grieving families after the Civil War. Casualties were felt in almost every community. While the nation healed, families were trying to ...

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 of travel and ...

The first national observance was shortly after the American Civil War and was then called Decoration Day. Veterans decorated war graves ... many of them Black, held a parade, heard speeches and ...

In an 1871 Decoration Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery abolitionist Frederick Douglass said he feared Americans were forgetting the Civil War’s impetus: enslavement. “We must never ...

What are the origins of Memorial Day? The holiday's origins can be traced to the American Civil ... the war’s end. David Blight, a Yale history professor, points to May 1, 1865, when as many as 10,000 ...