Juneteenth takes place every year on June 19, so here is what you need to know. Juneteenth is the commemoration of June 19, ...

The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on June 19. Here's what to know about the flag's ...

WEITZEL and SHEPLEY, by letter, stated that the first American flag was raised over Richmond ... Texas, Nov. 5, 1865. To His Excellency, the Governor of the State of New-York: SIR: I have the ...

SHEPLEY, (Chief of Staff to Major-General WEITZEL,) formerly Military Governor of New-Orleans, subsequently of Norfolk, and more recently of Richmond, raised the first real American flag ...

The flag-raising was just one element of the city’s Juneteenth celebration, with the Juneteenth Festival coming up June 21 at ...

The 32nd state wouldn't have to wait long to lose its "new guy" status in the sea of stars that marks the upper-left corner of the American flag. When Virginia decided to secede from the United ...

“It was an old, dusty shadow box encasing a large flag,” she said. What Hiser discovered was an 1865 American presentation flag that she now believes was draped over the coffin of assassinated ...

In April 1865, the flag paved the way for a cordial meeting ... museum’s political history division who put together “The American Presidency.” And, though the surrender occurred nearly ...

Sumter in 1865 to the aggressively patriotic burst of American flags that emerged after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. We live in an ostensibly free country, and anyone, even a Supreme Court ...