On Monday afternoon, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley ... “The Confederate flag symbolizes more than the civil war and the slavery era,” wrote James Forman Jr. a professor at Yale Law ...

In 1961, to honor the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, South Carolina lawmakers raised the Confederate battle flag over the State House. In 2000, it was moved to a flagpole ...

The nationalists who lost China's civil war in 1949 fled to Taiwan and set up their own country, taking their flag with them.Watson says he still sees South Vietnam's flag flying in several parts ...

Most flag defenders, however ... About 20 percent of white Southern males of military age died in the Civil War. In South Carolina the toll was even higher, and thousands more were left maimed ...

but the flag’s connections to the Civil War and the historical tensions within the U.S. are the vital to the point they are trying to make. "In Italy it is used generally in the south to ...

The next day, Kout said, white students brought Confederate flags to school as a message: This is our heritage. The Civil War is like a mountain range that guards all roads into the South ...

“I decided it had to go home, it had to go to South Carolina, there was no question in my mind at all,” he said. “Probably it could bring a couple thousand dollars, but Civil War flags mean ...