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A letter writer expressed the idea of a “stupid question” regarding the column about how Florida still honors two traitors to ...
More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according to a report released Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
As Elizabeth R. Varon observes in Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South, her compelling new biography of James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee’s second in command, the Lost Cause ...
In the years following the Civil War, Fort Bragg, Fort Polk, Fort Benning, Fort Lee, Fort Hood and Fort Gordon were named for Confederate generals as part of the effort to perpetuate the idea of ...
WASHINGTON – The names of Confederate generals would be stripped from bases, building, planes, ships and even streets within three years under a sweeping amendment approved by the Senate Armed ...
The last army base once named for Confederate general, Fort Gordon in Georgia, is now Fort Eisenhower. It's a major milestone in reversing decades of propaganda surrounding the Confederate cause.
Donald Trump said he will revert the name of a North Carolina military base back to its prior name honoring a Confederate general, and suggested his pledge to do so will lead to “winning ...
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has voiced strong opposition to removing the names of Confederate generals from US military bases, repeatedly saying ...
Languages: English. A descendant of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson has rebuked a decision from a Virginia county school board to honor his ancestor on CNN's First of All With Victor ...
The North Carolina base was named for Gen. Braxton Bragg, who enslaved people in addition to being a Confederate general with a reputation for battlefield failure. Fort Bragg and other bases in ...