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

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for $468,000 at an Ohio auction house last month.

Find out the interesting history behind all 50 of the U.S. state flags The U.S. state flags, explained The American flag, the ...

Activists around the globe are kicking off May Day demonstrations with workers rights rallies and marches for social justice ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

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

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

Joseph Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Union Gen. William Sherman at Bennett Place ... Church services.

Joseph Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Union Gen. William Sherman ... Displays of Civil War relics. Placing of flags and wreaths on Confederate soldier graves and memorials.

While most remember the land battles of the American Civil War, the conflict at sea played ... daring raids and river campaigns. Learn how the Union Navy tightened its grip on the South and ...

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