When the bells ring: Every quarter-hour. The bells ring the Westminster Chime for Sunday services and at weddings. Songs are played on Easter and Christmas Day during the church’s Christmas parade.

The need to fill the void and to be seen and heard led to a miracle ... In 1983, U2 released the album War, and the polemically charged song “Sunday Bloody Sunday” about the futility of ...

In a short span of time, immigrants flooded Hamtramck, a blue-collar town fully within Detroit's borders. And things would ...

My first vivid childhood memory was the day the Japanese attacked ... The horrors of war touched me and my schoolmates when the bells of St. Michael’s Church began their doleful clanging ...

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865. The first national observance of ...

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that's supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of travel and ...

In an 1871 Decoration Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery abolitionist Frederick Douglass said he feared Americans were forgetting the Civil War’s impetus: enslavement. “We must never ...

May 25—Green Bluff's Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial Day weekend. Late Saturday morning, Union and Confederate ...