Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth renamed the Georgia base as Fort Benning. Other bases have been renamed using a name similar to ...

In some states, Grant deployed troops to maintain order and guarantee that African Americans and their Republican allies ...

Jennifer Barnhill is a columnist for Military.com writing about military families. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently renamed Fort Liberty, North Carolina, choosing the name Fort Bragg.

The discussion will examine Union and Confederate leaders who failed to fulfill their duties during the Battle of Antietam.

Many Southern states used this opportunity in the 1920s to honor Confederate leaders and segregationists. Georgia’s all-white General Assembly in 1926 first selected Dr. Crawford Long ...

There were grandiose negotiations with foreign leaders—including Juarez, Napoleon III, and Lord John Russell—seeking to bolster Southern troops. At one point, Confederate leaders even ...

Lawsuits to block removal of Confederate memorials dropped in South Carolina Lawsuits filed to stop the removal of memorials to Confederate leaders and a pro-slavery congressman in a South ...

Current law does not let him do that — the military is no longer allowed to name bases after Confederate generals — so Mr. Hegseth has found other military troops with the same last names.

Advertisement In 2022, the congressional Naming Commission suggested name changes for nine U.S. Army facilities that had been named for Confederate leaders, including Fort Benning and Fort Bragg.