On October 12, 1861, CSS Manassas became the first ironclad to see combat at the Battle of the Head of Passes on the Mississippi River. Protected by iron or steel armor plates, ironclads held a ...

The commission tasked with reviewing Confederate-inspired names of military assets has recommended in its final report to Congress that the Defense Department rename or remove hundreds of items. In ...

President Woodrow Wilson transformed government into an engine of white supremacy when he took office in 1913. His administration segregated a federal workforce that had been integrated for 50 years ...

This short tells a story about what would happen if the Confederacy returned today? With them led by Texas, they would ...

Texas Army base Fort Hood officially has a new name. On Tuesday, the U.S. Army formally changed the name of the base, once named after a Confederate general, to Fort Cavazos in honor of Gen. Richard ...

As Confederate statues and other references to America’s slaveholding past are being removed across America, Mississippi is the only state that still incorporates the “stars and bars” of the ...

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 ...

A new bill aims to end Confederate license plates.

US Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed Thursday the possibility of renaming 10 US Army bases honoring Confederate leaders and said any change would require the ...

So, this week marks the celebration of Juneteenth, which is still a fairly new holiday for me and my family. And all the Juneteenth parties and remembrances reminded me of an article my uncle sent me ...

IN one of Mr. W. E. Henley’s hospital poems, a sailor, “ set at euchre on his elbow,” tells in twenty lines what he saw from the wharf at Charleston when he was there off a blockade runner, near the ...