As a young child, Mary Jo McDonald spent years in foster care and was on the list to be adopted by a new family. That all changed when her troubled mother found the strength to change. McDonald ...

Following the Civil War, Memorial Day was first known as "Decoration Day" because widows of the fallen decorated graves with flowers, wreaths and flags. Nearly 700,000 soldiers died in the Civil ...

Its vivid scenes illuminate the prison’s overcrowding and deprivation during the Civil War. Almost 13,000 of its ... his drawing to the “parents, widows, orphans and friends of those who ...

When a 21-year-old former student opened fire inside his school in Austria’s second-biggest city earlier this week, killing ...

Diversity, equity and inclusion are not anathema to Christian life and discipleship, writes Dan Horan — they are found in the very heart of what it means to be a Christian.

Following the Civil War, Memorial Day was first known as "Decoration Day" because widows of the fallen decorated graves with flowers, wreaths and flags. Nearly 700,000 soldiers died in the Civil War, ...

The Civil War was the nation’s worst disaster ... in the memories of those who lived through it, and in the lives of widows and orphans who never saw their loved ones again.

Father’s Day was invented by Sonora Smart Dodd in 1909. She was inspired by a Mother’s Day sermon and wanted to create a similar holiday to honor fathers, particularly her ...

An academic historian had written about her, and she was sometimes included in lists of the moonlight-and-magnolia-style of female civil war spies, the kind historians don’t take too seriously.

Usually, a civil war is one where all of the fighting takes place within a single country. It occurs when two or more organized groups from the same country clash because of major disagreements ...

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY IN DES MOINES. GLENDALE CEMETERY. THE REMAINS OF 15 UNION CIVIL WAR VETERANS RESTED IN UNMARKED GRAVES, UNMARKED UNTIL TODAY. KCCI’S KAYLA JAMES SHARES THE EFFORTS TO ...