Fort A.P. Hill was once named after a Confederate general. Now it’s named after three Union soldiers whose surnames are ...

Gregg Johnson, President of the Valley NAACP, which covers the Naugatuck Valley, said the city of Shelton has accepted the holiday, despite its past racial tensions and ongoing efforts by the federal ...

The change for most city staff comes after negotiations with a union representing some city employees resulted in the addition of the holiday and wage increases over the next few years.

The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her ...

The political theater of sending Marines to Los Angeles subtly eats at force readiness, morale, and urgent preparation for a ...

Sudanese paramilitaries have claimed the seizure of a strategic area along the border with neighboring Libya and Egypt. The ...

Just as it turned 100 in 2016, America’s National Park Service (NPS) began to officially recognize the contributions that ...

Today, the 2,500-acre Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the siege, including 1,325 historic monuments ...

The U.S. government has a checkered history of helping persecuted masses, but it has held that aspiration since its founding ...

This is the second part of a series in which we examine history from a different angle. The business card has been in its ...

Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the country’s ...

As many as 150 military veterans and hundreds more of their family members, friends and supporters rallied Saturday at the ...