By Wayne Hester BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) - More and more voices across the U.S. South called for banishing the banner of the pro-slavery Confederacy on Wednesday in a fast-growing movement that ...

A construction crew prepares to remove a monument of Robert E. Lee, the leading general in the Confederate Army, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., May 19, 2017. A construction crew prepares to remove ...

"The idea of putting up (Confederate) monuments actually didn’t happen right after the Civil War. It happened during the 1960s," MSNBC analyst Joy Reid said on NBC’s Meet The Press, Aug. 13, 2017.

Biden removed the names of Confederate generals from nine Army installations. Trump has restored those Confederate names, but ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

Confederate symbols have not always been a part of American or ... For several decades after the Civil War, the Confederate battle emblem was rarely displayed — typically only during tributes to ...

But Confederate symbols, such as the Confederate flag and statues of leaders of the Confederacy during the Civil War, have often been the source of controversy for their perceived racial ties.

Even for war reenactors, the Confederate flag belongs in the past. Many perceive the flag’s removal as an affront to history, a reduction of the sacrifices made by Confederate soldiers.

Events of recent weeks have caused me reflect upon my thoughts and feelings about iconic Civil War statues and the Confederate flag. To be honest, I was content to accept these symbols as a part ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

The Confederate flag's history as a symbol of racial hatred, rather than a benign emblem of lost heritage, ... "I'm pretty convinced that from the end of the Civil War well up into the 1930s, ...