Western Louisiana’s Fort Polk, named after Confederate commander Leonidas Polk, will now be known as Fort Johnson to honor Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black hero of World War I who ...

University of Virginia historian Elizabeth R. Varon, with her new book “Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South” (Simon & Schuster, 480 pgs., $35), already has a bestseller ...

On several occasions before he died, former Confederate General Robert E. Lee expressed opposition to proposals to erect Civil War monuments and memorials, including some devoted specifically to ...

Engraved on the pedestal is one of her famous quotes: "Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it may be a diamond in the rough." Bethune was born to formerly enslaved people in 1875.

Not long ago, the group exhumed the remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate general and grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and had them ceremonially reburied in Columbia, Tenn., where ...