Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue honoring Confederate soldiers, dedicated on the Franklin, Tenn., town square in 1899. (Photo: John Partipilo) A statue ...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a landmark bill that retires the last state flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem. The Republican governor signed the bill Tuesday afternoon, just two days ...

COLUMBIA, SC (WCSC) - The Confederate Battle flag was removed from the South Carolina State House grounds in 2015, weeks after a shooting at a Charleston church shocked the nation. The flag came down ...

EXCLUSIVE: A week after “Dukes of Hazzard” stars Tom Wopat and John Schneider defended the Confederate flag painted on the roof of the show's famed General Lee – a bright orange 1969 Dodge Charger – ...

Since alleged gunman Dylann Roof has been charged with the killing of nine people inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, major debate has shifted over to ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized battle flag. Union Soldier Marshall Sherman of Minnesota stands in front of ...

The Charleston, S.C., shootings have sparked lots of discussion about the Confederate battle flag, but it's not the only symbol of the Confederacy. Hundreds of Confederate memorials, plazas and ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- Spectators at the Mississippi Capitol broke into applause Saturday as lawmakers took the first steps toward erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has ordered Confederate flags taken down from the grounds of the state Capitol. It's the latest move to banish the divisive banner from state capitals, ...

The Confederate Memorial of the Wind in Orange will remind 55,000 motorists a day of the rebel heritage many Texans would just as soon forget. From a statue of Jefferson Davis to license plates with ...