BROCKTON — Was Brockton named for an enemy general? Yes. And no. Consider the timeline. The British commander Sir Isaac Brock ...

As we mark the anniversary of the end of the War of 1812, something to remember this Christmas Eve is that each of us can be ...

The Peace of Christmas Eve in 1814 ended an era of warfare between Britain and the United States. The peace allowed ...

The Alien Enemies Act, first approved in the late 1700s, was last used during World War II to identify particular foreign ...

With so many wars taking place, the world needs the gift of peace more than anything this holiday season. The world needs the ...

Andrew Jackson against the British at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The Volunteer spirit sparked once again in 1835 in the Texas Revolution. Men across Tennessee took up arms ...

The name derives from the 1,500 Tennessee troops that fought under Gen. Andrew Jackson against the British at the Battle of ...

U.S. presidents have issued executive proclamations and invoked this law three times: during the War of 1812, World War I ... would trigger major court battles in which the text, early history ...

Soon after that, local publications in east Tennessee began referring to them as the Volunteers, as well, and the nickname ...

A fight is brewing over the Town of Bladensburg's plan to annex the former Prince George's Hospital Center site, a valuable ...

The octagonal, 65-foot-tall, amber-glass-and-concrete tower serves as a permanent shrine for more than 5,000 veterans buried ...