How have Germany following defeat in WWII and the U.S. south after losing the Civil War taught succeeding generations and ...

Other Confederate symbols on public land can be found elsewhere in California, according to the law center’s survey. The city of Fort Bragg was named for Capt. Braxton Bragg in the summer of 1857.

By Wayne Hester BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) - More and more voices across the U.S. South called for banishing the banner of the pro-slavery Confederacy on Wednesday in a fast-growing movement that ...

To some, the flag is a symbol of heritage — the oft-capitalized, ever-elusive Southern Pride — while to others, it’s a banner that brings to mind a century and a half of oppression and bigotry.

The Civil War was divisive and the Confederate flag was, and is, a symbol of that division. It’s time for the South and all who ally themselves with a Southern, pre-Civil War mentality to stop ...

"The idea of putting up (Confederate) monuments actually didn’t happen right after the Civil War. It happened during the 1960s," MSNBC analyst Joy Reid said on NBC’s Meet The Press, Aug. 13, 2017.

We cannot deny or rewrite American Civil War history. The uncompromising extremes of “in your face” defiance or “out of sight, out of mind” destruction provide no resolution.

Civil War statues and the Confederate flag are symbols of injustice, and should finally disappear. Published: Jun. 20, 2020, 5:08 a.m.

From the end of the Civil War until the late 1940s, display of the battle flag was mostly limited to Confederate commemorations, Civil War re-enactments, and veterans’ parades. The flag had ...

Matthew J. Clavin tells the story in “Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War.” And it’s a story of when love and honesty met bigotry and hypocrisy head-on.

The war over Confederate symbols began when the Confederate flag was lowered from its pole in front of the South Carolina statehouse after the mass shootings in June at a black church in ...