Violence in Charlottesville put a new spotlight on Confederate symbols . — -- As of 2016, the U.S. was home to more than 700 Confederate monuments or statues on public property, according to a ...

Crowds cheered back in July as the Stonewall Jackson statue was removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia -- one of the many symbols of the Confederacy put up after the Civil War. “People ...

Fights over history are really contests for children’s minds. And the stakes are high enough that adults have put children in harm’s way. Last week, people protesting the removal of Confederate flags ...

When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee. The Lee statue, ...

By a whisper-thin margin, the Georgia House on Tuesday rejected a bill that would have let private citizens sue over the ...

The Charleston, S.C., shootings have sparked lots of discussion about the Confederate battle flag, but it's not the only symbol of the Confederacy. Hundreds of Confederate memorials, plazas and ...

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 ...

A controversial Confederate monument, once removed from its post a mile away from the White House, will make its return this fall. The National Park Service said it restored and will bring back a ...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) - The Montgomery County school board is considering revising a countywide dress code policy to ban Confederate symbols and other apparel that would disrupt a school's learning ...

CNN — Some people say Confederate symbols pay homage to Southern pride and President Donald Trump has defended Confederate monuments. But I got my first taste of the racist meaning behind the ...

NEW YORK - When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee. The ...