Nearly 50 lawmakers wrote a letter to President Donald Trump last week urging him to award the Medal of Honor to a Marine ...

In the 19th century, the forced bondage and inhumane treatment of Black Americans fiercely divided the United States, North ...

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Colorado Rep. Larry Don Suckla recently co-sponsored a resolution to honor Native veterans for their service and sacrifice in ...

U.S. Military bases were named after Confederate soldiers to appease white supremacists; it was right to rename them.

By today's standards, Eric Fisher Wood Sr. would probably not have joined the National Guard, let alone join two armies to ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

The Virginia National Guard post formerly known as Fort Pickett was renamed Fort Barfoot after Tech. Sgt. Van T. Barfoot on March 24, making the Home of Army Aviation’s name change the first at an ...

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A descendant of Confederate Col. Edmund Rucker today denounced demands from Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen that Fort Novosel revert to being named after her distant cousin. “Rucker family ...

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

The Arlington museum’s exhibits restarted a dispute over two Medal of Honor stories. Here’s how officials picked which heroes to spotlight.