Lt. Gordon H. Root of Victor, New York, never saw combat overseas-but his sacrifice was no less heroic. On November 26, 1943, while ferrying a P-51 Mustang for the U.S. Army Air Forces, Root lost his ...

When the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment formed in 1863, 82 recruits from County joined the nation's first all-Black ...

This year marks not only the 80th anniversary of Johnson’s death, but the end of World War II. Germany surrendered to the ...