The first was the “Stars and Bars,” approved in 1861. Like its Union ... of the beginning of the Civil War, South Carolina lawmakers raised the Confederate battle flag over the State House.

Catherine Wright talked about the American Civil War Museum’s collection of Confederate flags and told the stories behind some of the collection’s most historic flags. She also explained how ...

It has reflected Democratic racial oppression since it was stitched together in 1861 ... the Confederate flag is a Republican creation, rather than a Democratic invention. As the Civil War ...

When a mob of armed insurgents flooded the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, they brought an accessory: the Confederate battle flag ... the true history of the Civil War—and as the controversy ...

Like other Confederate documents, the Texas Declaration of Causes for Secession on Feb. 2, 1861 ... pro-Southern view of the Civil War, nonetheless thinks the battle flag should be de-emphasized.

Private Marshall Sherman of Minnesota stands in front of the Confederate flag he seized in the Battle of Gettysburg. It's believed he held onto the flag and eventually gave it to a Civil War ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

Let's talk about how the woman responsible for bringing down the Confederate flag in her state became the woman who failed to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War. Of course, we're ...

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...