Buffalo soldiers under the direction of John “Blackjack” Pershing were tasked with chasing down Mexican revolutionary Pancho ...

University of Richmond history professor Eric Yellin talked about the spoils system that existed before the formation of the modern day civil service. This discussion was part of the American ...

Join us as Steve Phillips and Robert McDaniel take their metal detectors to the former home of Confederate General Nathan ...

In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who ...

This article originally appeared in the May 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. I recently had the honor of visiting Jimmy ...

Friday, sculptor Alan Gibson, monument maker Tom Miller and members of the Daughters of the American Revolution were among the crowd of about 150 at ...

It was first widely observed on May 30, 1868 to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers ... In 1971, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act and established that Memorial Day ...

Memorial Day, started out as Decoration Day in Waterloo, New York, back in 1866 when Henry Wells, a local drugstore owner suggested that all businesses close for one day to honor, in a solemn and ...

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After the bloodiest war in U.S. history, an enlisted soldier in the Union Army was assigned to recover war dead from Southern battlefields. Brevet Lt.-Col. Edmund B. Whitman mapped out ...

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