The racist massacre in a South Carolina church has tipped the balance in a decades-old tug of war over the meaning of the Confederate battle flag. Its champions have argued it’s a symbol of ...

How the Confederate flag came to be. Though inextricably linked with the Confederacy, the flag was never its official symbol. When rebels fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, they flew a blue ...

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 ...

and first used as a regimental flag before becoming the battle flag for the Confederacy. According to historic accounts, prior to the beginning of the Civil War, several flags were flown by forces ...

The nation watched in horror as a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, swarming police officers and vandalizing a federal building. Amid the chaos and sea of American flags and ...

Dylann Roof has a legitimate claim to the heritage that Nikki Haley upholds for its devotion to family and tradition, traits ...

He successfully pushed the stock car series to ban the Confederate flag at its venues less than two weeks ago. More than 150 years after the Civil War, monuments, schools and roads across the ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...

Private Marshall Sherman of Minnesota stands in front of the Confederate flag he seized in the Battle of Gettysburg. It's believed he held onto the flag and eventually gave it to a Civil War ...

On Aug. 6, 2022, the South Carolina state flag was raised for two months before the Confederate battle flag was raised on the same 120-foot-tall pole.

Davis, captured by Union forces, was imprisoned at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va. Hood had surrendered to Union forces in Natchez, Miss. My primary celebration on Thursday, the 160th anniversary of the ...