There was a switch made during a recent construction project on the heavily traveled tunnel. The banners from the other states and the Alabama flag – – has been removed from a Capitol Hill tunnel. it isn’t just routine redecorating, however. Instead, the switch comes after months of controversy over flags that use Confederate imagery.

A $6 million project to restore the stone house and grounds that served as Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s headquarters at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania lauding by the head of a preservation group. This 4-acre property had been privately owned ever since the Civil War’s bloodiest battle, sprouting a motel, restaurant and other modern structures that dismayed

Washington National Cathedral held a discussion on its windows honoring Confederate generals on Oct. 26, 2016. Several well known speakers were present on the discussion. Among them Civil War scholar John Coski, the Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas of the cathedral, Rex Ellis of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and moderator Ray

History moves in strange ways. Consider the case of the Confederate ship CSS Stonewall, which never fired a shot during the Civil War. The ship was built in France to serve the Confederate navy, but thanks to staunch Union diplomatic opposition, eventually ended up in Washington without firing a shot. Ultimately the Japanese bought it

Governor Vance was a Unionist. He then changed from Unionist to Secessionist. It is known to most of us about how Vance was in the process of delivering a speech for the Union when word arrived of the firing on of Fort Sumter. Vance stated that he was “canvassing for the Union”. Zeb Vance: from

The Mississippi Economic Council has unveiled a bicentennial banner to mark 2017 – drawing immediate attention, given the political tension over the state flag. Mississippi is the only state that has not removed the Confederate emblem from its state flag. MEC led a move to get rid of the Confederate emblem in 2001 that drew

Memphis wanted to relocate the statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from a city park. Forrest was responsible for a massacre of black Union troops in 1864 and was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. African Americans are not thrilled to see his statue. Nope, you can’t do it, the Tennessee

South Carolina Confederate sympathizers are bitterly divided over a plant to commemorate the Civil War. It’s almost a civil war over the Civil War. The state chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans wants to build a monument to the state’s signers of the 1860 Ordinance of Secession, but the S.C. Secessionist Party lambastes the