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.

Why it matters: It suggests a dedication to keeping alive the "Lost Cause" myth created by white Southerners, which romanticizes the Confederacy and debates slavery as the root cause of the Civil ...

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 ...

Since the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the United States has been plagued with its violent consequences.Following the Civil War, there was a rise of neo-Confederate hate groups who ...

Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865 to 1913 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987) David Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War ...

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

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.