A living history encampment will allow visitors to speak to the soldiers, try on clothing and take hold of some of the ...

when the need to keep the banner aloft in battle led the Union army to treat the deadly job of flag bearer as a high honor — ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Washington native James Smallwood had had the old musket of another era for ...

Once home to guerrillas — for whom it offered an airstrip and a plentiful supply of free-range meat — the Mozambican park has ...

At first glance, there was nothing unusual about Pvt. Lyons Wakeman. The service record in the National Archives is similar ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a ...

The Stuart History Festival will take place at the Old Palace in Worcester on July 5 and 6, described by organisers as a first for both the city and the country.