The Confederacy’s theory of victory at the start of the Civil War was straightforward — so logical, the historian Emory M.

Last week, Florida governor Ron DeSantis promised to rename Fort Liberty after Confederate general Braxton Bragg, a slave owner who fought against the United States whose name previously adorned the ...

MSNBC and NBC News legal analyst Maya Wiley noted that the Confederacy allowed noncitizens to vote, essentially calling for modern America to be more like the Confederate States – at least when it ...

The commission tasked with reviewing Confederate-inspired names of military assets has recommended in its final report to Congress that the Defense Department rename or remove hundreds of items. In ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – There's a battle brewing in Dixie ... California. Officials in a city north of San Francisco have refused for now to change the 150-year-old name of the Dixie School District, ...

The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.

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President Woodrow Wilson transformed government into an engine of white supremacy when he took office in 1913. His administration segregated a federal workforce that had been integrated for 50 years ...

As a national debate rages over the symbolism of the Confederate flag, some critics of the Clintons have questioned why as governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton approved a state flag design that carried a ...

A statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, lies on the ground in Richmond after protesters pulled it down on Wednesday. (Parker Michels-Boyce/AFP/Getty Images) It should have happened ...