The flag icon has been used on government sites since 2017, said a spokesperson for the General Services Association, which guides federal website standards. The flag had only nine stars because of ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

A search of website archives confirmed the small, nine-star American flag icon existed prior to U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

Washington’s Birthday has been largely forgotten as a distinct celebration, but its commemoration in Civil War-era Cambridge ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

Today's History Seekers adventure takes us to a field used by both confederate and union soldiers during the American Civil War. We take a girl to the field using an AT MAX metal detector to find ...

Several of the users spreading the claim said the flag originated with the Confederacy and the U.S. Civil War, referencing it as the Confederate ... the first nine states to secede from the Union in ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017 ...

Europe to be excluded from peace talks by US as Zelensky calls for ‘army of Europe’ - Ukraine has insisted they will not ...

“During the Islamic State occupation, I would look at it every morning and see their flag ... war-torn areas -- including neighboring Syria, which is now starting to emerge from nearly 14 years ...