For instance, Fort Hood in Texas was originally named for Confederate Maj. Gen. John Hood and renamed Fort Cavazos after Gen. Richard E. Cavazos, the Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. The base ...

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The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War. It declared that all ...

Kevin Costner will air a long-unrevealed truth about the famous 1866 Fetterman Fight — that Capt. William Fetterman wasn’t ...

Six decades after the federal government ordered Concordia Parish to desegregate its schools, the district remains racially ...

James Lutzweiler of Jamestown, N.C., has written two new self-published books about South Carolina and the primary cause of ...

Among other things, “1861” portrays the waiting game that Maj. Robert Anderson faced as he commanded Fort Sumter and faced ...

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Leaders in the LGBTQ+ community and the family of Long Island native and gay rights activist Harvey Milk this week denounced a Pentagon review that could strip his name from a U.S. Navy ship.

This weekend, the echoes of muskets and the stirring words of Lincoln will ring out in Bellefonte as the borough hosts its ...

In “The Third Reich of Dreams,” Charlotte Beradt collected the night terrors of ordinary Germans like herself during the ...

Every family has its stories, traditions, heirlooms and recipes passed down over the years. Family folklore helps families ...