A Virginia school board violated students’ First Amendment rights when it restored the name of a Confederate general to its high school, a federal judge decided this week. District Judge Michael F.

EDENTON, N.C. (WAVY) — The Confederate monument that has stood for more than 116 years in the waterfront town is on the move for the second time. Late Saturday night, contractors dismantled the ...

West Point Lee Portrait FILE - Lee Barracks, named for Civil War General Robert E. Lee, is shown at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, July 13, 2020, in West ...

The Confederate monument that has stood for decades at the foot of South Broad Street in Edenton is no longer there. 54 shot, 7 dead, in Chicago amid Trump's threat to deploy National Guard Hearts ...

EDENTON — The Confederate monument in downtown Edenton was removed from its decades-long perch at the foot of South Broad Street late Saturday night. The two-hour operation was carried out with swift ...

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Beneath the soil of a quiet yard lay a soldier’s story frozen in time. This haunting discovery sheds new light on the final moments of the Civil War. Florida State Bracing for Hefty Fine After Alabama ...

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

Two Washington, D.C.-area statues commemorating the Confederacy will be restored and replaced, in line with President Donald Trump's pushback on recent efforts to reframe America's historical ...

The sponsor of Alabama’s law forbidding local governments from removing or renaming historical monuments is making another attempt to increase fines for cities and counties that do so. Sen. Gerald ...

Arlington National Cemetery's Confederate Memorial, shown here July 2020, was removed in December 2023 but will be restored in coming weeks. (Elizabeth Fraser/Arlington National Cemetery) Defense ...

The National Park Service is planning to restore and reinstall a statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general and Freemason leader, that was toppled during Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020.