Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
For decades, more than two dozen urns made of cardboard and copper have been sitting on storage shelves at a funeral home and ...
Denzel Washington reenacted the heroics of Sgt. William Carney in the movie "Glory." The Pentagon removed a story about him ...
The Defense Department efforts to purge DEI content from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero ...
Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...
On a memorable day in March, fourth-grade students at Hamilton Heights Elementary School (HHES) were transported back to 1864 as Kevin Stonerock, also known as Billy Yank, visited their classrooms to ...
The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...
As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...