Throughout the relatively short history of the US, it’s become a tradition that presidents have their coffins draped in the ...

How could Americans be such nice and decent people and support someone so debasing, so deranged, so hate-filled? It was the ...

The state flag emerged in 1861 at North Carolina's state constitutional ... These documents put North Carolina at the beginning of the American Independence movement as one of the original colonies.

For decades, the cremated remains on more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities ...

Flag-officer LOUIS M. GOLDBOROUGH, recently appointed to the command of the Northern division of the Atlantic Squadron, was born in the City of Washington, and is a son of the late CHARLES W.

No force-work, you understand,—only a speech or two, a hint to form themselves into a society, and a bit of red and blue bunting to make them a flag ... you call our American system a ladder ...

Framed by the October night, American flags and with the White House glowing behind her ... angels of our nature,” which ...

This is the context to Lincoln’s first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, in which he pleaded with ... the Confederates raised their first national flag over their then-capital in Montgomery ...

President Madison told Congress at the end of 1810, that "it appears that American citizens are instrumental ... under cover of other nations’ flags. It was clear that the government’s effort ...

21, 1861. Mr. BIGELOW, the United States Consul ... which have the effect of Union flags. The thirty-three stars on them, to give a strong idea of Anti-Secession, are all grouped into one.

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota leaders tasked residents with helping reimagine the state's flag and seal. The citizenry delivered, with designs running the gamut from reverent, to just plain ridiculous.