But she was known publicly for her staunch, always polite defense of the "Lost Cause" narrative and the South's right to be "left alone." She traced her Charleston family lineage to 1670, and counted ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Arlington National Cemetery will be restoring a Confederate monument criticized for misrepresenting the history of slavery. “It never should have been ...

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a state park with the largest Confederate monument in the country, arguing officials broke state ...

DECATUR, Ga. -- A Confederate monument has been removed by crane from a town square near Atlanta amid cheers from the watching crowd. As midnight approached on the eve of Juneteenth, the obelisk ...

Judge Jefferson Griffin, a Republican who lost his November race for the North Carolina Supreme Court, has created a scene by refusing to concede the race for five months, and recently a 2001 photo ...

Men and women gathered in Secession Hall, Charleston, S.C., around Christmastime in 1860. On Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to vote to leave the Union. Credit - Corbis via Getty ...

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Local kids, if you’re bored over your Thanksgiving break, the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy – “Ladies Who Appreciate Our Southern Heritage” – has something to keep you busy, ...

A massive monument of General Robert E Lee that once sparked riots in the Virginia city of Charlottesville is now a pile of melted-down bronze, artfully displayed in a Los Angeles museum. Next to the ...