So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...

The report tracks both the protection and removal of Confederate memorials located in public spaces, schools, street names ...

Thousands of Confederate symbols are standing in public spaces around the nation despite ongoing efforts to have them removed ...

The holidays were added across the Southern states during the years after Reconstruction, historians say, when Confederate ...

The move to change the name of Rutherford Hall, named after a woman who attempted to whitewash the Confederacy and slavery, is met with silence.

As Fort Moore in Columbus, Georgia, reverts to its previous name, Fort Benning, the Southern Poverty Law Center says the ...

Stone Mountain looms over Georgia’s landscape like a silent witness to history, its gray granite face carved with figures ...

The holidays were added across the Southern states during the years after Reconstruction, historians say, when Confederate supporters were promoting the false "Lost Cause" mythology, reshaping ...

Consider that Griffin, then a college student, was proudly posing in Confederate grays 136 years after that side surrendered at Appomattox. While the particular myths of the Lost Cause have varied ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...