The holiday is used to remember those who died fighting for the Confederate States of America during the Civil War and was first observed in a number of areas just after 1866. Texas commemorates ...

Director Martin Scorsese, the mind responsible for 'Taxi Driver', 'Killers of the Flower Moon', 'Silence' and more, names his favourite ever western ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly ... heads of the recently seceded Southern states were planning to meet and form the Confederate States of America. Even when Davis had his doubts ...

Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...

Bones found 10 years ago during excavations for Riverfront Park were determined to be Union soldiers and were properly ...

Clint Eastwood once fired his director after an on-set feud broke out during the production of the 1972 western movie 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'.

Mare Island was one of only two public shipyards in America that built nuclear submarines during the Cold War. It hosted an ...

President Trump has directed the reopening of Alcatraz, the infamous former prison, sparking curiosity about its history.

Also called “The Rock” and “Devil’s Island”, the facility housed some of the most infamous criminals in the United States ... below this ad During the Civil War (1861-1865), the prison also housed ...

Making the film “Warfare” was an exercise in exposure therapy for the veterans whose memories it reconstructs.

"We're the United States of America," he said. "We're not Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany or Napoleon's France. I just — we're better than this. It just sounds like a sophomore thing to do." The vote ...