The Confederate Battle Flag has a “newer” use that goes beyond its original use as a Civil War battle flag. During the 1948 ...

The drive to remove Confederate monuments links those monuments to modern racism. An economic historian shows that the intent ...

16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33 cm.) ...

The deadliest conflict in American history, the Civil War ... found that the record-keeping in the Confederate Army began to erode as the war neared its end, and what did exist was burned in ...

The Civil War between the United States and the Confederacy was fought over the issue of enslavement. Slavery was the ...

There won’t be any decisions made this week in the Confederate flag case. In fact, residents will have to wait until the end of this month before the respective parties will be seen in court at all.

The army was extremely reluctant to commission black officers -- only one hundred gained commissions during ... the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army.

But 160 years ago on Dec. 13, 1864, as part of Gen. William T. Sherman’s “March to the Sea” campaign, Union soldiers captured ...

Two months before the Civil War ended, a Confederate soldier was tried in a New York City courtroom for espionage—and for ...

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The Confederate battle flag ... and on public buildings. As per Civil War historian and native Southerner Shelby Foote, the flag traditionally represented the South’s resistance to Northern political ...

From the column: "It's one thing to eliminate the symbols; it’s quite another to eliminate the racism, hatred, and anarchy the symbols represent." ...