Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, built in San Diego, a highly rare move.

The Navy will rename the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville for Robert Smalls, a former slave-turned-sailor and statesman known for commandeering a Confederate steamer ...

The Navy has renamed a warship in honor of a Black sailor and statesman who had been ... which was named after a Confederate victory in the Civil War, was renamed the USS Robert Smalls, the ...

The US Navy is renaming two of its vessels as part of ongoing efforts to cut ties with Confederate history ... honoring an enslaved sailor for the Confederates during the Civil War who later ...

On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama. The Confederate warship had wreaked havoc ...

On the last day of summer, in central Virginia, a battalion of Confederate soldiers marches in orderly ranks onto the field sloping down to Sailor’s Creek. A smaller force of Federals already ...

Thousands of Confederate symbols are standing in public spaces around the nation despite ongoing efforts to have them removed or renamed. More than 2,000 Confederate symbols, including 685 ...

Some, however, have visited recently. One grave for a Confederate sailor has a clean white naval cap placed on top of it. The decision to remove the statue has already proved controversial.

WASHINGTON _ Despite recent efforts to remove or rename Confederate memorials, there are still more than 2,000 symbols in places across the country, according to a report released Thursday.