So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

Thousands of Confederate symbols are standing in public spaces around the nation despite ongoing efforts to have them removed ...

Florida legally observes Confederate Memorial Day, along with the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, but these ...

The report tracks both the protection and removal of Confederate memorials located in public spaces, schools, street names ...

Confederate Memorial Day is an official holiday in several states. Why is it celebrated, and where? Does New Jersey take part ...

What we think of today as the Confederate flag remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology.

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

The city witnessed a bitter controversy over the removal of a Confederate statue in Travis Park in 2017. It's been in storage ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation ...