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The emergence of the photographs comes at a delicate time for Jefferson Griffin, a Republican appellate judge who is seeking a spot on North Carolina's highest court.
The Pentagon stripped the name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from a Navy ship. Here's what it's called now. The Navy is changing the name of the USNS Harvey Milk to USNS Oscar V. Peterson. Milk was a ...
The uniform coat pictured here is part of the Society’s Civil War collection. It is a single-breasted navy blue Union captain’s frock coat, with sky blue piping indicating that the wearer ...
A Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate posed for a photo wearing a confederate military uniform in a 2013-14 faculty photo at the Army War College.
The United States Navy will be renaming oceanographic survey vessel USNS Maury as part of its bid to cut ties with all Confederate namesakes in the military.
The Navy has removed the name of a member of the Confederacy from a building on the U.S. Naval Academy’s campus and renamed the hall after former President and “Ring Knocker” Jimmy Carter.
The US Navy is renaming two of its vessels as part of the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to cut ties with Confederate history.
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — A U.S. Navy ship originally named for a Confederate victory will soon be known by the name of a former slave who hijacked a Confederate vessel. The USS ...
The vessels will be named for Robert Smalls, a mariner who commandeered a Confederate ship to freedom from slavery, and Marie Tharp, an ocean geologist who studied continental drift.
The navy is renaming the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory. It will now be the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate ship.
A commission tasked with reviewing military property honoring members of the Confederacy has recommended the U.S. Naval Academy rename two buildings and a road on its Annapolis campus.
As the Pentagon looks to reexamine names honoring Civil War Confederates, a Navy guided missile cruiser has been redubbed in honor of a famous Black statesman from South Carolina who escaped ...