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

It was created by Christopher Gadsden during the American Revolution in 1775 ... The first iterations of the flag were used in 1861 by the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

Such is the spirit of the American people. The friends of the white flag tell us they only desire "peace" -- and peace is truly worthy of any Christian people's pursuit. But there are conditions ...

One would no more expect a Republican politician to speak a foreign language than to play the cello. What, then, accounts for ...

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Here we needn’t cite the full Fort Sumter; instead, suppose that the Palmetto State simply pulled the American flag down from its ... The potential for an 1861-type conflagration was there ...

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 ...

1861, battle of Philippi under a 36-star American flag that did not become the official flag of the United States until July 4, 1865, months after the cessation of hostilities that led to West ...

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 ...

The Glasgow venue held its flag-folding ceremony - dubbed the American trilogy - at the end ... Americans who died during the US Civil War of 1861-65. The club's website explained: "As the ...

Fair officials are pushing fairgoers into the digital age by rolling out a new-and-improved app and eliminating physical ...

The band marches onto the field in Confederate battle flag uniforms ... To be an African-American in this world isn't much different than it was in 1861, and the Mississippi of 1962 has been ...