Are “the dead of Olustee” resting in a place of honor, even though their names have been lost since the Civil War? One hundred and sixty-one years after that war’s largest Florida battle, a “serious ...

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The Civil War meant different things to different people: Southerners fought a War of Northern Aggression, Northerners fought to save the Union. African-Americans fought for their freedom. The firing ...

While Memorial Day was this past Monday, today marks what was once an important, similar holiday known as Decoration Day and it’s still being honored in northeast Iowa. The Bay Church and Cemetery ...

Bill Steinbacher-Kemp Archivist/Librarian McLean County Museum of History BLOOMINGTON — Erected in 1869 and originally located in the center of Franklin Park, the old soldiers' monument featured the ...

Winter is the perfect time for working on your family tree. Last week my husband and I got to mark off one of the items on our genealogy research bucket list. We had to make a quick trip to a town ...

Mississippi celebrates Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday, one of only a few states to do so. The holiday is observed on the last Monday of April and commemorates Confederate soldiers who ...