America must take a look at the ongoing racial violence and the monuments we build in service or resistance to it.

Soon after the end of the war, reasons for why the Confederacy was just in its endeavors began cropping up. This is now known as the Lost Cause philosophy. In April of 1865, General Robert E.

The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White” tells the tale of a free Black man captured during one of the Alabama’s many raids ...

The Winter program of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society (CVHS) will be held virtually at 3 p.m. EST on Sunday, ...

This excellent book had the good fortune to be published right before the recent events that have led to the toppling of some of the best known icons of the Confederacy and “The Lost Cause” myth that ...

Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...

Virginia Democrats are once again advocating for legislation aimed at stripping tax-exempt status from several organizations linked to Richmond’s Confederate history.

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

The holidays were adopted by states across the South during the years after Reconstruction, historians say, when Confederate supporters were promoting the false "Lost Cause" mythology to downplay ...