3 hrs ago | Clifton Journal
Sacrifices, wars and the Great Depression
CLIFTON - In anticipation of Memorial Day, a City native shared one family's story of service and sacrifice by revisiting what life was like in Clifton 70 years ago during the Second World War.
5 hrs ago | The Hartford Courant
Newington Honors 26 Residents Killed In War During Memorial Day Parade Saturday
Saturday's Memorial Day Parade will have a symbolic "grand marshal" representing the the 26 service members from town who died in conflicts from World War I to the Vietnam War .
9 hrs ago | StarNewsOnline.com
July 1, 2 and 3 will mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the most costly battle of the American Civil War , and the one generally marked as the turning point of the conflict.
10 hrs ago | WHP-TV Harrisburg
Battle Of Gettysburg now on a stamp
The U.S. Postal Service unveiled two new Civil War Forever Stamps Thursday, including one featuring the Battle of Gettysburg.
11 hrs ago | WNEP-TV Moosic
WWII Vet Behind Return of Flags to Market Street Bridge
An 88-year-old World War II veteran who served in the Battle of the Bulge is being credited for the return of American flags to the Market Street Bridge for Memorial Day.
11 hrs ago | Washington Examiner
Harvard's Nye: On world stage, Obama no match for George H.W. Bush
President Obama has failed to live up to his "transformational" image crafted in the 2008 campaign, winning a lukewarm "meh" from influential scholar Joseph S. Nye Jr., former dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
11 hrs ago | WCYB
Rolling Thunder dedicates 'empty chair' memorial in Marion
The empty chair memorial is now located on the courthouse lawn, along with 700 white crosses, to represent prisoners of war and the military members who have been missing in action from as far back as World War I. "We've been working on this POW-MIA memorial for a couple of years," said mayor David Helms.
12 hrs ago | Patch.com
Elmhurst's Memorial Day Parade, Ceremony Will Honor Those Who Gave The Ultimate Sacrifice
Do you ever wonder what Elmhurst was like 95 years ago? The Wilder family still owned the Wilder Mansion, trains on the Great Western Railway chugged through town.
13 hrs ago | Laughing Squid
World War I Map Portraits by Ed Fairburn
In Part I of the series, Fairburn used ink to draw the portraits directly on to the maps .
15 hrs ago | CNN
First on CNN: Bill Clinton's $106 million speech circuit windfall
As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton embarks on her new career as a paid speaker, she joins a lucrative family business that already has earned her husband more than $100 million since leaving office in 2001.
15 hrs ago | The Skanner
Bill Clinton's $106 Million Speech Circuit Windfall
As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton embarks on her new career as a paid speaker, she joins a lucrative family business that already has earned her husband more than $100 million since leaving office in 2001.
16 hrs ago | BBC News
Charles and Camilla at Hay festival
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are to attend the opening day of the Hay Literary Festival in Powys.
20 hrs ago | The Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Fringe review: 'Hitler's Li'l Abomination'
Her father is a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Her mother was in the Hitler Youth. She accidentally dated a White Supremacist.
Yesterday | The Daily Record
History group walk the West Highland Way in World War I gear for charity
WALKING the 96-mile West Highland Way is a tough enough challenge without donning army kit and blister-inducing World War I boots.
Yesterday | The Kansas City Star
Liberty Memorial exhibit looks at the origins of World War I
Observance ceremony: 10-11 a.m. Monday on the monument deck with color guards and the American Legion Band; readings of letters from the war; free parking and shuttle from Crown Center parking lots at 27th Street and Grand Boulevard; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The National World War I Museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday; discounted admission ... (more)
Yesterday | Now Toronto
Calling his show Early Sunday Morning after an Edward Hopper painting, photographer/filmmaker Kaufman channels the luminous stillness of Hopper's early 20th-century urban scenes in order to pay homage to Toronto's pre-World War I red-brick main-street architecture.
Of the European Modernists who came of age during World War I, the protean Hans Richter has been among the hardest to pigeonhole.
Cross-dressing Cuban woman who fought for Confederacy a rebel in more ways than one
She was an enigma wrapped in a riddle surrounded by an iron corset. Loreta Janeta Velazquez fought in the American Civil War as man, spied - perhaps for both sides - as a woman, and was denounced as one of the great literary hoaxers of the 19th century after she wrote a book about it.
Memorial honors those killed in action
As millions prepare to enjoy a day off and three-day weekend, a group of locals gathered at Veterans Memorial Park to remember those who gave their lives so others can enjoy such freedoms.
Hillary Clinton accepts humanitarian award in NYC
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton touted the efforts of a group combatting malnutrition and blindness during an awards speech in New York City.