Confederacy

An independent naming commission tasked with purging Confederate names from the U.S. Department of Defense has recommended that the Navy rename the USS Chancellorsville, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, and the...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Army cavalry surrounded Lincoln’s carriage as it rolled through the capital. Stone rode among the horses, surreptitiously kicking the animals with his spurs to agitate...

Key Point: In late 1860, there was only a handful of regular Army troops in D.C. — and no single commander whose job it was to oversee the District’s defenses. On...

Key Point: In December 1860, the United States was on the brink of civil war. South Carolina’s legislature had already passed an ordnance of secession and other states would soon follow...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Confederacy lacked the resources to produce a working helicopter. It’s the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 and Union forces...

In the months before the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, the Wehrmacht’s propagandists warned those living under German occupation that America’s armies would not be as forgiving. In the pages...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The craft looked … interesting … on paper. It’s doubtful whether it would have been able to do much good for the rebels, though –...

Activists nationwide have resumed demanding the removal of statues and symbols that are considered racially offensive – such as of slave owners, Confederate leaders and the Confederate flag. The requests...

In response to the police killing of George Floyd, and to a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, protesters across the country have recently removed or vandalized statues celebrating Confederate soldiers, founding...

“The union of these four presidents carved on the face of the everlasting hills of South Dakota will constitute a distinctly national monument.” So said President Calvin Coolidge in 1927...

The latest chapter in the United States’ ongoing debate about Confederate monuments involves some unexpected opinions: those of long-dead land donors. Responding to sustained, nationwide protests over police brutality, Virginia...

The ongoing and expanding protests about the continuing unfair treatment of African Americans and other minority groups within the United States have literally reached the gates of the United States...