The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...

Flags signaled other units in battle, but were also a tangible manifestation of the beliefs and spirit of a group of people. As such ... displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War.

The battlefield is home to many monuments both Confederate and Union ... was attended by over 250,000 people: “All of them we honor, not asking under which Flag they fought then—thankful ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War ... people, who I think are upset by its mere existence, that a Union ...

Daniel Allyn, the Army's vice chief of staff, understands the flag's historical significance within the military. The Civil War, and the decades ... noting Lee's Union counterpart, Gen.

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

The veteran protectors of a Civil War battle flag, like the Union soldiers who carried it ... after a months-long fundraising effort. "These people need to be respected and honored for what ...

For beginners and those brushing up on history, here are some answers: ...

Confederate flag flyers should become adults, revere Iowans who fought for the Union in the Civil War, and join the rest of humanity, including the descendants of slaves. The war is over ...

Hours after "Black Lives Matter" was spray-painted on monument for "North Carolina's Civil War Governor," H.K. Edgerton stood with a Confederate flag ... and the honorable people in the southland ...

to grasp the significance of the battle flags to soldiers during the Civil War, said Steve Martin, who traces his ancestors to some of the first people to settle and be born in Lansing.