MONTGOMERY, Ala. – One hundred and fifty years after the Civil War's end, several Southern states will mark Confederate Memorial Day as an official state holiday. In ceremonies scattered across ...

Dying Alabama magnolia tree once hid Confederate memorial. Updated: Sep. 14, 2022, 7:15 a.m. ... traditional Southern tree planted in 1967 when the current courthouse was built.

So I'm strolling through Magnolia Cemetery the other day and wondering what I can contribute to the teetering tower we call Southern history. I'm struck, as I so often am when walking through ...

Individual states did not establish dates for Confederate Memorial Day until sometime after 1868, when Memorial Day was established by the federal government. Some Southern states observe Robert E.

The Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. Tensions over the Confederate flag flying in the shadow of South Carolina's Capitol rose ...

The Confederate battle emblem has been on the state flag since 1894, when it replaced the flag featuring the state tree, a magnolia, on a white field. The Magnolia flag was Missippi's state flag ...

When I saw Nazi and Confederate flags mingling in Charlottesville, I thought about Victor Bernstein. And blood. Until SS harassment forced him out in 1939, Bernstein covered Nazi Germany for the ...

Voters in Mississippi approved on Tuesday a new state flag that will feature the magnolia flower, months after the southern state retired its old banner bearing a Confederate battle emblem.

The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks Confederate symbols and memorials displayed in publica spaces and across the country. That includes military bases, monuments, markers, street names and others.

More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according to a report released Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center.. Of those symbols, 685 are ...

Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia name the last Monday in April as Confederate Memorial Day to mark the surrender of Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston and his army on April 26, 1865.