Mississippi observes Jefferson Davis' birthday, combined with Memorial Day, as a state holiday. This combined holiday is one of three Confederate holidays observed in Mississippi. While other ...

Mississippi observes Jefferson Davis' birthday, combined with Memorial Day, as a state holiday. This is one of three Confederate holidays observed in Mississippi, including Robert E. Lee/MLK Day ...

Mississippi will honor Confederate President Jefferson Davis this three-day weekend. The state isn't the only one to honor him with a state holiday or local celebration, but it is the only one to ...

HAMPTON, Va. — One of the most incongruous of all of Virginia’s Confederate war memorials has come down with the removal of Jefferson Davis’s name from an archway at the site where the first ...

The conference room at the O.O. Howard House has a capacity of 50 people, but the Clark County Historical Preservation Commission never uses that many chairs. But on Tuesday night the group almost nee ...

GOLD CANYON, Ariz. (KSAZ) - The Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway Monument that sits in the far East Valley has been tarred and feathered. An investigation is ongoing. The monument sits near Gold ...

A statue of Jefferson Davis in the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, on Thursday, July 20, 2017. Davis was a Kentucky native and was the only president of the Confederate State of America.

In his youth, Craig Via made many trips to Fort Monroe — known as Freedom’s Fortress — but always was perplexed to see the Jefferson Davis Memorial Park archway that seemed to hon… ...

A press conference was held Wednesday to announce efforts to change the name of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway. The stretch of the US 60 near Apache Junction could get a name change due to ...

After Memorial Day weekend, Alabama residents get an additional three-day weekend the week after to honor Confederate President Jefferson Davis' birthday as a state holiday.. Who is Jefferson ...

Mississippi honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis today. The Magnolia State isn't the only one to honor him with a state holiday or local celebration, but it is the only one to combine it ...