A volunteer pauses as he helps put up a field of flags near the War Memorial Thursday, May 23, 2024, in Milwaukee. The Memorial Day tribute will feature 27,316 American flags representing ...

The US Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was a defining moment in this nation’s history settling the question of slavery once and for all. It was by far the bloodiest conflict that the United ...

The upside-down American flag, originally an apolitical symbol used by sailors to signal that their ship was in trouble, has since been adopted by both the political left and right in protest.

Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn holding the cremated remains of Union soldier Byron R. Johnson during services last month at Oak Grove Cemetery, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo gives perspective on what the American Civil War was really about. Dr. Allen C. Guelzo the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar at Princeton University talks about ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages.