The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

The Medal of Honor ... the Medal of Honor from three wars. Their actions, like the other recipients of the medal, were far and above the call of duty. During the Civil War, the job of color ...

The Medal of Honor, the nation's highest recognition of valor, was created the following year during the Civil War. The surgeon volunteered to lead 14 men and a mule train on a 100-mile trek ...

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S.C. More than two dozen African Americans were awarded the Medal of Honor in the Civil War. Let’s honor their courage. Let’s remember their convictions. In other words, we need to remember ...

There have been 3,519 recipients, the largest number presented during the U.S. Civil War, followed by World War II, as per research provided by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.

More than 24,000 people have signed the Change.org petition requesting that the museum add Chapman’s story to approximately ...

The Arlington museum’s exhibits restarted a dispute over two Medal of Honor stories. Here’s how officials picked which heroes to spotlight.

On the night of Feb. 24, 1969, Airman 1st Class Levitow was serving as the loadmaster aboard an AC-47, codename “Spooky 71,” ...

A group of U.S. lawmakers are pushing to posthumously award a civil rights activist held in the Japanese internment camp in ...

Over the following months wording changed slightly as the bill made its way through Congress ... (Civil War). Though there are myriad military heroes, many unsung, the Medal of Honor sets specific ...