The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Tanks and thousands of troops are on the streets of Washington, D.C., for the Army's 250th anniversary on President Donald Trump's birthday.

The Army is celebrating its 250th anniversary with a parade on Saturday, which happens to be President Donald Trump’s 79th ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...

President Donald Trump has already eroded many of the U.S.’s democratic safeguards and traditions in the initial months of ...

Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse in the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay.

When soldiers of the South massed around Richmond at the beginning of the Civil War, the city needed more than drill fields and barracks. Richmond needed hospitals, lots of hospitals.

Ronald Kirkwood, former news and copy editor of the Patriot-News, has won an award for his book, "Tell Mother Not to Worry: Soldier Stories From Gettysburg’s George Spangler Farm." ...

Memorial Day is set to be observed Monday, May 26. Here's what you need to know about the holiday dating back to the end of the Civil War.

On May 30, 1868, General James Garfield gave a speech at Arlington as 5,000 people decorated the graves of 20,000 Civil War soldiers. | Courtesy Wikipedia Getting your Trinity Audio player ready ...