The United Daughters of the Confederacy have honored Kate Sexton, a Civil War nurse, with a marked gravesite in a cemetery in Bristol, Virginia. Ms. Sexton served Confederate soldiers in Virginia and Georgia and died more than 150 years ago at age 77. Ms. Sexton’s grave is one of many that the United Daughters of […]

On Thursday, a Des Moines high school student displayed a Confederate flag from his vehicle. School officials requested that he remove it. The student, Jake Malloy, claimed his flying of the flag was not based in racism. He said the flag was flown for fallen soldiers of the Civil War and that it’s a sign

The Virginia Flaggers, a group that places Confederate Highway Memorial Battle Flags at sites around the commonwealth, is performing site improvements to the flag location on I-95 and has temporarily removed the flag and flag pole. The work is expected to be completed this fall and the flag will return with a re-dedication ceremony. The

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Is Southern culture racist or is it just being skewed as such by history? Is it fair to attack the reminders of a time in our history that is a deeply divisive to this country? This author explores reasons for preserving our monuments to the Confederacy and why they are not just icons to racism. Key

The people In Hollywood are arguing over whether they should rename the streets that are named after Confederate Generals. Some people are claiming that is like erasing history, inconvenient for the people currently living on those streets or if the post office will even approve of renaming the streets. On the other side are the

When a group of Confederate Flag wavers, the Virginia Flaggers, headed down the the VMFA for a day of flag waving, they were accosted by a man named Jonathan Romans who had been served warrants for accosting them before. He was arrested, and the Flaggers were very happy about that and will continue to protest

San Francisco school board member Matt Haney is proposing that several schools in the area change their names. He suggests that schools named after Washington, Jefferson and other early American icons should be renamed because of these individuals’ tie to the slave trade. He suggests that the schools be renamed after such people as San

In “Civil War Profiles – Protecting the flag was the primary mission” Thomas J Ryan highlights the role of standard bearers during battle. He points out that members of the color guard had to be extremely courageous and that although standard bearers are often killed another color guard member is always ready to step up

Free speech is not so free in Lake Arrowhead as a group of high school students comes under attack for displaying confederate flags on their pickup trucks outside of the school. The matter was discussed at a school board meeting where former assemblyman Tim Donnely defends the students right to free expression. The students flying