Over the July Fourth long weekend, people will pour into the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the 160th anniversary of one of the deadliest battles in U.S. history. The three-day ...

ATLANTA - James Blitch, a 22-year-old Atlanta man, is accused of driving more than three hours to Spartanburg County, South Carolina, just to lower the Confederate flag that flies over Interstate 85 ...

Confederate Memorial Day is a holiday commemorating the Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. The holiday was first declared in Georgia on April 26, 1866 on the first anniversary of the day ...

Confederate myths are confronted as John Dunphy pushes back with facts ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Vandals have targeted monuments dedicated to the leaders and soldiers of the Confederacy, painting the slogan “Black lives matter” on memorials in a half-dozen states where the ...

Former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus (D-MS) said his state’s declaration of April as Confederate Heritage Month celebrates “something that was truly awful: people trying to own other people.” CNN’s ...

MIAMI - During the Civil War, Florida was part of the Confederate States of America. However, Key West was not under the control of the Confederacy and the city's 450 slaves were freed before the end ...

A couple of letters to the editor recently caught my attention. One letter writer celebrated the renaming of United States of America military bases that were formerly named for generals of the ...

Mississippi observes Jefferson Davis' birthday, combined with Memorial Day, as a state holiday. This is one of three Confederate holidays observed in Mississippi, including Robert E. Lee/MLK Day and ...

Confederate States of America fifty dollar bill featuring a central image of Jefferson Davis. Inscribed in cursive above the illustration is the sentence, [Two Years after the / Ratification of a ...