What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

A Confederate flag that flew in the Civil War has reportedly finished a 148-year journey — and will now be displayed in a Naval museum in Virginia. Capt. Henry Hendrix, director of the Naval ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The Confederate battle flag no longer flies at South Carolina's Statehouse. But other symbols of the Civil-War South are unlikely to vanish soon. Calls to remove the flag or ...

The second period when Confederate symbols exploded was the civil rights era. But it was the Confederate flag — not monuments — that gained prominence during this time, as Reid later clarified ...

For several decades after the Civil War, the Confederate battle emblem was rarely displayed — typically only during tributes to actual Confederate veterans. It was not part of state flags or ...

Civil War Flags. Catherine Wright talked about the American Civil War Museum’s collection of Confederate flags and told the stories behind some of the collection’s most historic flags.

The white troops who raised the Confederate flag during World War II argued that they were ... and it was one of the first major victories of the modern civil-rights era. Read: Confederate flag, ...

Even for war reenactors, the Confederate flag belongs in the past. Many perceive the flag’s removal as an affront to history, a reduction of the sacrifices made by Confederate soldiers.

A Henry County commissioner requested a few months ago that a local Civil War museum remove its Confederate flags. But without that symbol, the Nash Farm Battlefield and Museum announced that it ...

The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...