The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized ...

The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...

Some two dozen rainbow Pride flags that appeared on the Purdy Bridge in mid-June were taken down by the Washington State ...

The flag connects to a Richard Nixon ploy that kept the war going. When Nixon took office in 1969, support for the war was ebbing quickly. The peace talks were under way and the antiwar movement ...

The Palmetto Flag with the crescent and blue background has been South Carolina’s flag since Jan. 28, 1861 — five weeks after the state seceded from the Union and kicked off the Civil War.

American, Japanese families joined by war and remembrance 07:28. President Obama's visit to Hiroshima this past Friday is one indication of how the legacy of the war with Japan has come full circle.

Flags in Iowa will be at half-staff on Saturday, June 28, in honor of a World War II veteran whose remains had been missing ...

It's wanted by state officials at the Michigan History Museum in Lansing, where about 160 other Civil War flags rest in archival-safe storage, for the sake of preservation.

The flags apparently were from the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of veterans who served in the Civil War. The flags were roughly 12 inches in length and width and believed to be from ...

When the old Charleston flag turned up unexpectedly in Michigan more than 10 years ago, it piqued Dave Downing’s interest. He had been giving a talk about Civil War flags in Greenfield Village ...