The Sons of Confederate Veterans allege the park’s changes to its Civil War history exhibits violate state law.

Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

Citadel founder Ken Griffin paid $18.1 million for copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

Community groups and Terminal Islanders — descendants of the Japanese American community that once thrived there — say ICE is ...

DELRAY BEACH — For more than a century, Memorial Gardens Cemetery has been a resting place for Delray Beach’s past. Now, as ...

On Thursday, Samuel H. Bogenrief, a farrier with the 17th Illinois Calvary during the Civil War, received a proper farewell.

America’s Freedom Flyers" also includes a space dedicated to the 91 members of the company who came from St. Louis.

In a solemn and emotional ceremony, the people of Lofa County graced the dedication of a newly constructed memorial site in honor of 35 victims who were allegedly brutally massacred by ULIMO-K rebels ...

Alabama’s Selma-to-Montgomery march began as a memorial to Jimmie Lee Jackson, a young Black civil rights activist who was killed by police on Feb. 26, 1965.

Flamboyant, dapper pioneering politician and war hero remembered: The late Charles Rangel, who died on Memorial Day at the age of 94, was remembered fondly by Brooklyn Democratic leadership this week.

Rangel, a noted Korean War hero and civil rights activist, was born on June 11, 1930, in Harlem and earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star with Valor during military service.