An 1863 coffee package featured a nonchalant Uncle Sam seated on a cannon, whittling, with a torn Confederate flag under his foot ... At the Confederate surrender at Appomattox in April 1865 ...

Shortly after the surrender of Robert E ... Amid the self-congratulation over mothballing the Confederate flag, Graham published a guest column in August in the Charleston Chronicle, the city ...

“Now he belongs to the ages.” The line was uttered by Edwin Stanton, Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of War, shortly after the ...

Texas has hidden gems scattered across its vast landscape like bluebonnets in April, but few shine quite as brilliantly as Granbury. Just a quick 35-mile jaunt southwest of Fort Worth, this lakeside ...

Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the ...

Confederate Memorial Day is not only racist — it is bad policy, bad governance and a deep stain on the values we claim to ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes it’s that time of year again, when South Carolina and eight of the state’s 46 counties embarrassingly and dangerously close offices and give employees a day off ...

Graphic from the County of Lexington Facebook page Salty emails began to pepper my inbox soon after my column calling for an end to South Carolina’s Confederate Memorial Day published Thursday.

One of Alabama’s major cities is looking to redesign its controversial flag, and its letting the public weigh in. The city of Montgomery is hosting a citywide contest, open to Capital City ...

Six Flags Darien Lake will open its 2025 season on Friday, May 16, representatives announced. The 1,200-acre amusement park’s Mind Eraser looping roller coaster, which was closed for the 2024 ...

The date did not correspond with Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation or with the accepted date of the Confederate surrender of the Military Departments Mississippi and Alabama by Confederate ...