South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council held a closed-door meeting where member nations called for both countries to ...

Greenbrier Valley Theatre, West Virginia’s official professional theater, typically times a production opening to coincide with the holiday weekend, offering evening entertainment options after ...

Memorial Day's history begins after the Civil War. It became a federal holiday in 1971 and is marked with cemetery visits, parades and ceremonies.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani met with senior U.S. State Department officials on Tuesday in New York, two sources ...

William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

Lee and Stonewall Jackson, according to the United Daughters of the ... explains that the Confederate flag represented the ...

The report tracks both the protection and removal of Confederate memorials located in public spaces, schools, street names ...

The fourth edition of the Southern Poverty Law Center's report detailed the challenges that researchers called the "politics ...

Lee and Stonewall Jackson, according to the United Daughters of the ... Displays of Civil War relics. Placing of flags and ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.