Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...
This is the second time this bill has gone through the General Assembly, after Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a version last year ...
Since then, two more major Confederate monuments have been removed: the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery and the Monument to the Women of the Confederacy in Jacksonville, Florida.
Virginia took another decisive step in its ongoing reckoning with its Confederate past as the House of Delegates in a bipartisan move approved legislation to strip tax-exempt status from organizations ...
Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.
There’s been a lot of conversation recently about monuments dedicated to Confederate leaders. But, this history professor has ...
Virginia lawmakers advanced legislation to remove tax breaks from multiple Confederate groups after Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA ...
The House of Delegates Finance Committee on Monday by a 12-10 party-line vote advanced legislation that would strip the ...
Wren Williams (R-Patrick), the bill would have undone a provision passed in 2020 that allows localities to remove, change or recontextualize war memorials, including Confederate ones, after ...
Confederate Memorial Day was started in Georgia in April 1866 to commemorate the deaths of Confederate soldiers on the first anniversary of the day that Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnson surrendered ...
Confederate Memorial Literary Society, and Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Inc. In response to the bill's filing, the United Daughters of the Confederacy posted a statement to its website, saying in ...
The bill would repeal a change to the Virginia code implemented in 1950 to allow Confederate organizations to operate ...