Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the ...

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.

Confederate leaders themselves made that clear. Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens declared in his infamous “Cornerstone Speech” that the Confederacy was founded upon “the great ...

and erecting monuments in public squares to glorify Confederate leaders. Attempts to remove the holidays have faced intense opposition in the Florida Legislature from lawmakers who say that ...

The Trump administration has taken its own stance on the issue, recently restoring the names of two military bases that honored Confederate generals. North Carolina’s Fort Liberty was reverted ...

In recent years, there has been a push in several states to remove public tributes to Confederate leaders, particularly since a 2015 mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, where white ...

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 ...

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Shara, who once led a branch of Al Qaeda, was the first time in 25 years that the leaders of the United States and Syria had ...