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

Lisa Elmaleh In May 1862, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls won renown by stealing the Planter, the Confederate military ... of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about 4,000 ...

Cameron McWhirter covers national affairs for The Wall Street Journal from Atlanta. Before joining the Journal, he reported ...

Karen E. Washington was the last of 10 children of the late Mallie and Cora Davis Washington. Some people called her “Carolyn ...

At the Smithsonian Museum, thoughts about Trump’s Executive Order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” came to ...

So I think that did affect African Americans ... known as the rebels, as in confederate rebels. Had a guy with a full confederate uniform and a big confederate flag waving around at all the ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

Some of the memorials to the Confederacy and its leaders found in metro Atlanta's public (and some private) spaces ...

There were words across my screen and down my screen.” Johnson added that there were Nazi symbols, confederate flags and some people were even chanting. She added that the words and images were ...