U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

In Calais, the loss of Fred and Harry Sherman was keenly felt during World War I, while Eastport's Ralph Ray was deeply mourned when he failed to come back from the Mexican Punitive Expedition in 1916 ...

Columnist John Breunig eulogizes his father. 'I don’t think I ever fully saw him as a soldier until the funeral ended Friday' ...

Reflecting on Memorial Day’s origins in the Civil War, this article contrasts past and present national divisions, critiques ...

PART ONE OF SEVEN ST. PAUL, Minn. - In the end, Chad Malmberg put his framed Silver Star on the wall and stowed away his helmet, some old uniforms and the dusty combat boots he had worn in the ...

This MDW weekend, watch and stream the best Memorial Day movies, including military movies and war films to honor the ...

Offering top notch professional actors and actresses is the Virginia Repertory Theater of Richmond. They offer two plays each year.

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial ...

By now, the Russian euphoria that greeted improved relations with Washington this spring has diminished, but many Russian elites and ordinary citizens continue to pin their hopes on the Trump ...

The following news items are reprinted from the Manistee Daily News for the week May 15-21, 1925 and are compiled from the Manistee County Historical Museum’s newspaper archives. Read the full 100 ...

ON MAY 1, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation awarded and signed the $273.84 million contract with Skanska USA ...

The documentary filmmaker called the American Revolution the world’s greatest historical event “since the birth of Christ.” ...