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Sympathy for yesteryear is gaining traction among Republican elites, and Trump’s relations with white supremacy is too close

In a symbolic rebuke of the American South’s racist history, an old Confederate monument now has a meaningful new life, four years after it was toppled in Virginia.

Schools changed their names after 2020 George Floyd protests, but will now revert to old names celebrating slave-state leaders

In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery

“I’m pretty sure that Robert E. Lee was not a leprechaun," Jon Stewart joked

The reason is a combination of the general structure of our legal system and the original meaning of Section 3.

After holding up the promotions or new assignments of several hundred senior officers for nearly a year, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville relented to pressure from both GOP and Democratic Senate members and ended most of his campaign against a military policy on abortion.

Elizabeth Varon considers how Robert E Lee’s lieutenant came to work for civil rights and fight white supremacist violence

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a cemetery at the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Four months before, about 50,000 soldiers had been killed, wounded or captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, later seen as a turning point in…