The Virginia State Capitol, seen here from Main Street in April 1865, also served as the Confederate capitol, where war needs often trumped states' rights. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Charles F. Bryan Jr.

DURHAM, N.C.—As a crowd of protestors put a strap around a Confederate memorial on August 14 and pulled it off its plinth, Durham County sheriff’s deputies kept a low profile. They didn’t ...

Why Is the UNC System Giving Confederate Apologists $2.5 Million? The board of governors has chosen a baffling route out of a controversy over Civil War memorials.

You can see, in just these three changes, how the Confederate Constitution is something of a road-not-taken for American political development, in how it embodied some of the major, founding-era ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

The system robbed the Confederate government of needed funds and tore at the morale and loyalty of Southerners as their fledgling nation fought for its existence, said Rodney Steward, a historian ...

Commerce; Governors of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina Correspond with Rebel Government ...

The federal government has hired private security firms to guard several Confederate memorials across the U.S in the aftermath of clashes between white nationalists and counterprotesters last year.

But they—we, our federal government—do provide headstones for Confederate dead all over the country: 18,593 of them in the last 10 years, and an average of more than 2,000 per year going back ...