Julian Hayter: Those monuments, in many ways, are part and parcel of what we call the Lost Cause. Anderson Cooper: The Lost Cause. What does that mean?

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Across America, protesters and city leaders are removing monuments of Confederate soldiers. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is home to more than 40 Confederate monuments. The park is ...

Many of these recently removed monuments remain in storage, but 19 of them have been given to pro-Confederate groups, who are free to put them back on display.

More than 140 Confederate monuments have been removed from public land since the Charleston, S.C., church shooting in 2015, and about two-thirds of those came down in 2020 in the aftermath of ...

Citing the “vandalism” of monuments, Republican state lawmakers passed a law in 2021 that prevents Fort Smith from removing its monument and supplants local control over dozens of other ...

For more than a century, those fraudulent, oppressive monuments stood undisturbed, until the proposed removal of statues of Robert E. Lee in New Orleans and Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 touched ...

Karen L. Cox says attacks on Confederate monuments after the death of George Floyd reflect a decades-long history of anti-racist activists making them a focal point of protest. While these markers ...

Author of “Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America,” winner of the 2020 Tom Watson Brown Book Award by The Society of Civil War Historians and the Watson-Brown Foundation.

The full 2020 survey will be released later this year. The SPLC said 94 of the Confederate symbols removed in 2020 were monuments, compared to 54 monuments removed between 2015 and 2019.

1911 was a big year for putting up Confederate monuments in a number of states; across the South, numerous statues were erected during the Jim Crow era. Then more were erected while the KKK ...