South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

Every fourth Monday in April is celebrated as Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama, according to WHNT. That means today, April ...

Confederate Memorial Day is a holiday commemorating the Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. The holiday was first declared in Georgia on April 26, 1866 on the first anniversary of the ...

By Matt White Published Apr 22, 2025 5:28 PM EDT The first recorded use of pressure-activated land mines was by the Confederate army in 1862 during the Civil War. Union soldiers thought they were ...

In a docuseries that ran over 10 nights on PBS, the Vietnam War got the same hallowed treatment Ken Burns brought nearly 30 years earlier to the Civil War. Burns and Lynn Novick’s “The Vietnam ...

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s.