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

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 Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on June 19. Here's what to know about the flag's ...

The Confederate flag doesn’t see much daylight in Tucson, but the few times a year that it does are rubbing some people the wrong way. As legislators in South Carolina debate the symbol’s ...

This dish towel ended the Civil War “It is sufficiently humiliating to have had to carry it and exhibit it,” fumed the Confederate officer who wielded the flag of truce—now on display at the ...

The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on June 19. Here's what to know about the flag's ...

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.

Among the orders issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War was one declaring that all enslaved ...

Danville City Council chambers were packed — and the crowd spilled out onto the street — Thursday night with people waiting to hear the fate of the Confederate flag on the Sutherlin Mansion ...

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell didn't hold back his contempt for Trump, who promised to restore the names of military bases to those of Confederate generals.

Juneteenth is widely celebrated as a federal holiday on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the U.S.