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.

“It is sufficiently humiliating to have had to carry it and exhibit it,” fumed the Confederate officer who wielded the flag of truce—now on display at the Smithsonian—at Appomattox Courthous ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy ...

Wilma Rosette (Van Orsdall) Northup, 94, a longtime resident of Ollie, passed away on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney. Wilma was born in Morristown, Minnesota on ...

Ron Kirkwood was recently named the recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable for his book, “Tell Mother Not to Worry: Soldier Stories from Gettysburg ...

Demonstrators and spectators gather around a toppled Confederate statue known as Silent Sam Monday, August 20, 2018 at UNC-Chapel Hill. Demonstrators surrounded and obscured the statue with large ...

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A federal judge said that she had concerns about being “hoodwinked” by plans put forward in her courtroom Monday by a Trump appointee to rebuild three offices focused on civil rights oversight ...

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is in upheaval amid a mass exodus of attorneys as the Trump administration moves to radically reshape the division, shelving its traditional mission ...

DAYTON, Wash. — Back in the New Deal era, the Northwest's mighty rivers were dammed, allowing barges to cheaply bring grain from the wheat fields of eastern Washington to the coast for export.

He was last seen May 16 at his residence. The sheriff's office said Fitzgerald's vehicle has been located at an overlook on top of the mountain at the Confederate Breastworks, where there is currently ...