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

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

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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.

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.

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

POLITICS. 1,503 Confederate symbols are on display across America. Most are in the South. 179 are in majority black counties. While the symbols are a nod to the Civil War, the majority were ...

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, ...

More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according to a report released Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Of those symbols, 685 are ...

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 adds new emotion and tensions to a year of ...