A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United ...

3, 1863. The site is located 23 miles southeast ... in what remains the largest mass execution in American history. In the meantime, many Dakota fled Minnesota, some fleeing north to Canada ...

He enlisted in March 1863, joining the 54th. His Medal of Honor came during the battle when the flag bear carrying the American flag was killed. Carney snatched up Old Glory and marched forward.

From the parking lot outside the mock battlefield — the real one, hallowed ground, is miles away — the reenactors with Confederate flags and the ... in early July 1863, when it was so hot ...

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

It may be four months away, but planning has already begun for Vallejo’s 35th annual Juneteenth Parade and Festival. The festival — set for 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 21 at Barbara Kondylis ...

A judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives.

Image A handwritten account by Charlotte Brown, a Black woman in San Francisco who protested being forced off a streetcar in ... “under three flags”: Spanish, Mexican and American.

In 1863, 48 counties in the western part of Virginia ... And it was great fun — until things suddenly turned serious. A native American leader proposed making it an independent Indian nation.

Hudson Stuck (1863-1920) was an Episcopal priest and ... Tatum constructed a makeshift American flag from handkerchiefs. The following year, Stuck’s memoir was published, “The Ascent of ...