Among the Mississippians honored on Veterans Day are 28 Medal of Honor recipients. Among those is Van T. Barfoot.

Staff Sgt. Clinton “Clint” Romesha woke up early on the morning of Oct. 3, 2009. Combat Outpost Keating, an International Security Assistance Force base in Kamdesh near the Pakistani border of ...

When asked who the most outstanding soldier of World War I was, commander of the American Expeditionary Force John J. Pershing surprised everyone. There were many names to choose from, many of which ...

American Legion Post 4 presented copies of the book “Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty,” by best-selling author Peter Collier to the Orangeburg County Library last week. The ...

The heroic actions of Danny Hernandez during Operation UTAH, March 1966, went unrecognized for over four decades due to lost ...

On a prestige level, the Youth Media Awards are the Oscars of children’s literature. Their origins date back to 1922—a full seven years before the first Academy Awards. That’s when the American ...

A book for young adults by Calvin College professor of English Gary Schmidt has been named one of the top books of 2004 by the American Library Association, winning two prestigious awards. Schmidt's ...