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

Reproduction of a photographic print. Courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress The father of our Virginia state flag is former President John Tyler ... two statues for Charlottesville: one of the ...

The Confederate cause is deeply ingrained ... and Lee going up against each other with their requisite flags," he added, noting Lee's Union counterpart, Gen. Ulysses Grant, who later became ...

The nation watched in horror as a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, swarming police officers and vandalizing a federal building. Amid the chaos and sea of American flags and ...

A Civil War museum ... such as flags, mugs, hats, and tote bags. Just three days later, the museum said there was a much larger turnout than anticipated, and it sold out of reproduction swords ...

Social studies and history teachers may still teach about our country’s nearly 250 years of chattel slavery, the Civil War, the Reconstruction period ... sexually explicit materials; sexual ...

But as secession got underway, the Confederate States of America adopted a flag that riffed off the Union’s stars and stripes. Known as the “Stars and Bars,” the flag featured a white star ...

There might not be a lot of mystery surrounding how the Civil War turned out when it ended in April 1865. In the simplest of oversimplified nutshells: The Union ... Regiment’s Flag in Minnesota ...

IONIA — Worn, but not tattered, a handmade silk Civil War battle flag is slowly fading away in the Ionia County Courthouse. The former Union Army's 21st Volunteer Infantry Regiment battle flag ...

The Jackson Civil War Muster is celebrating its 36th ... During the battles people can expect to see a reproduction of a battle flag of the 26th Michigan Infantry Regiment, he said.

When the war ended in 1865, Yale considered creating a memorial to these Union soldiers ... dedicated memorials to the South. Confederate memorials sprang up across America, unveiled with American and ...