In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

The celebrated Underground Railroad conductor received posthumous recognition for her service as a spy, scout, nurse and cook ...

Thanks to the Missing In America Project, which finds, identifies and inters veterans, the ashes were recovered and most were ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

There was no big fanfare. Only a handful of people gathered to pay their respects. Yet there was something profound about the ...

Hidden histories come to life in this sprawling show, which includes photos, films and interactive touch-screen oral ...

The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves of a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle only had the name of ...

Through funding from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Legacy Grants Program (VLGP), Kristin Horan and Chris Hess are collecting the life histories of Georgia’s World War II veterans ...