President Barack Obama awards Sgt. Dakota Meyer the Medal of Honor Sept. 15, 2011. Meyer is the first living Marine recipient ...

Few researchers can claim to be a pioneer in their field quite like Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD. While serving as the basic ...

Saturday, Feb. 1 is George Washington Carver Day in Iowa , a well-deserved honor for the recipient of the Spingarn Medal, Roosevelt Medal, fellow of the Royal Society in London, and posthumous ...

Three rural Americans risked their lives to help save Europe from tyranny 80 years ago. The nation should remember them as it ...

In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

Although minor in size, the battle at Firebase Maureen was nonetheless major in ferocity — enough to produce two Medal of ...

Actor Michael J. Fox was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Jan. 4 by former president Joe Biden for his work ...

A major Doubled Die Reverse discovery on the 2024-P Dr. Mary Edwards Walker quarter is turning heads. Found in circulation ...

Gen. Richard Cavazos was a believer in the moral ascendency of leaders, achieved by earning the faith and trust of those he ...

EXCLUSIVE: A new, bipartisan, bicameral bill would boost pensions for Medal of Honor recipients six-fold.

From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.