Ingloriously crammed between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, Flag Day tends to get overlooked. Here's a brief history of ...

About 150 people gathered alongside Badger Lake Monday morning to honor heroes. The honored heroes were not the stars of the ...

Las Vegas is probably the only city in the United States that will observe Memorial Day by decorating the graves of the soldiers of 1861 to ’65, and laying to rest a soldier of the war of 1898.

Memorial Day is often associated with barbecues, parades, & the unofficial start date of summer, but it’s origin is rooted in ...

A correspondent of the New-Orleans Picayune, writing from Indianola, Texas, under date of April 24, gives the following account of the capture of the United States forces by Col. VAN DORN ...

On Memorial Day — a holiday that originally honored Union soldiers who died defending the principles enshrined in our ...

La Vista Memorial Park and Mortuary will hold a free community Memorial Day event from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday at 3191 Orange St.

April 1843: a small flotilla of ships are cruising along the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, which has seceded from Mexico.

COLE, of Company A, Fifth Regiment of United States Volunteers ... where there was to be a grand secession "love feast" and flag raising. Here they found a company of secession cavalry drilling ...

North Carolina, known for its natural beauty and rich history became the 12th state in the United States on November ... NC has had 3 different state flags – 1861, 1885, 1927 North Carolina ...

This Memorial Day op-ed discusses our duty to honor fallen heroes who protected freedoms and our Constitution.

Calling all history buffs! Step back in time at one of these significant sites in each state, from Revolutionary War ...