J. E. B. Stuart wrote from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, to his cousin Bettie Hairston, “A few ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday.

Since the killing of George Floyd and the nationwide racial reckoning that blanketed the U.S. after May 25, Virginia has removed the most Confederate symbols — 26 total — in the country.

Lawsuits to block removal of Confederate memorials dropped in South Carolina Lawsuits filed to stop the removal of memorials to Confederate leaders and a pro-slavery congressman in a South ...