Tennessee honors its proud legacy of service this Independence Day, celebrating the Volunteer spirit from Revolution to ...

This simple dish towel was used as a flag of truce by Confederate troops during Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, and is now on display at the ...

Minnesota is honoring the golden retriever named Gilbert belonging to a state lawmaker and her husband who were shot to death ...

Every community has a Juneteenth story about Black people being freed from oppression, but in the city of Sacramento, Juneteenth is in a kind of limbo. While Juneteenth is an official holiday in the ...

The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in Galveston at the end of the Civil War. General Order No. 3 declared that ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Masses of demonstrators packed into streets, parks and plazas across the United States on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump, marching through downtowns and small towns, ...

After massive turnouts last weekend for “No Kings” democracy protests, activists opposed to President Donald Trump are ...

Today’s events are another step in an ongoing effort to turn the U.S. military into a partisan—and personal—instrument of the ...

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling 10 years ago this month, on June 26, 2015, legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S.

As Israeli strikes kill top Iranian generals, take out air defenses and damage nuclear sites, many wonder if President ...

Tennesseans have a long and rich history of fighting for freedom, starting with the Revolutionary War. Tennessee earned its nickname, "The Volunteer State," during the Mexican-American War when a ...

The justices' 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by President Donald Trump's Republican administration and state governments ... had been ...