Special Series Code Switch: Perspectives Perspective Appreciating our enslaved ancestors despite the relics of the Confederacy June 19, 20246:00 AM ET By B.A. Parker ...

This gesture of federal fealty ratified the “Southern way of life” at a time when Black Americans were being hanged, shot and burned alive before cheering crowds all over the former Confederacy.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a true daughter of the South in some of the worst ways possible. Last week, the Georgia congresswoman showed the world, again, that she is a white supremacist who ...

Appreciating our enslaved ancestors despite the relics of the Confederacy By B.A. Parker (NPR) June 19, 2024 8:33 a.m.

Scientists estimate the emergence of the confederacy took place in the year 1142, during a total solar eclipse near Victor. Here are some eclipse events that will be celebrating the Confederacy ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A handful of states in the South have an official holiday, June 3, to honor Confederate president Jefferson Davis on his birthday. Though there's not a lot of fanfare around it ...

Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his 75,000-man Army of the Tennessee were closing in on splitting the Confederacy in half, shattering the South’s ability to supply its troops.

Much has been said about the inspiration of the ancient Iroquois “Great League of Peace” in planting the seeds that led to the formation of the United States of America and its representative ...

Tom Bissell writes about the novel “A Confederacy of Dunces,” by John Kennedy Toole, and how its reception has changed since its publication forty years ago.