Next week Americans will celebrate the founding of our country, but most probably don’t realize how close one hundred and sixty years ago in July 1864 America came to being permanently torn apart.
Officials with the United States Navy have renamed two ships whose names have ties to the Confederacy.
The Charlottesville City Council has determined what will happen to a statue that was taken down in July, NBC 12 reported Tuesday.
Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and other left-wing activists expanded their effort to erase history by replacing the contents of a time capsule that was inside the pedestal of the now-removed statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee since 1887, claiming the new contents represent “who we are.”
Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam live-streamed on Wednesday the removal of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
A 130-year-old statue of Civil War General Robert E. Lee that dominates a traffic circle in Richmond, Virginia, will fall Wednesday. The end of the largest extant Confederate monument in the United States draws to a close a series of protracted legal challenges that began more than a year ago when Gov. Ralph Northam ordered its removal.
The City of Charlottesville, Virginia, officially removed Saturday morning the statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, both of which have been a political flashpoint in the community since the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally.
Washington and Lee University’s (W&L) Board of Trustees voted in a 22-6 decision to keep the school’s Robert E. Lee namesake, but also promised to “expand diversity and inclusion initiatives and make changes to campus buildings, practices, and governance.”
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Racist emails sent to the University of Texas amid a debate over the school song “The Eyes of Texas” were “abhorrent and hateful” but don’t truly represent the Longhorns’ alumni and fans, university President Jay Hartzell said Tuesday.
Under the order of Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol.
Party City is reportedly working to remove Civil War kids costumes from its franchise stores following complaints last week from a mother in Arlington, Virginia.
The faculty of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, voted on Monday to remove the name of Robert E. Lee from the university’s name. During a faculty meeting on Monday, 79 percent of faculty voted in favor of a change to the university’s name.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)’s amendment attached to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act is not simply an effort to rename some military bases named after Confederate leaders but a push to erase American history.
President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday evening that he would veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) if it included an amendment to rename ten U.S. Army bases that had been named for Confederate generals.
100 Professors at Washington & Lee University are calling for the removal of General Robert E. Lee’s from the university’s name. In 1870 the university’s name was changed from Washington University after Lee assumed the role of university president.
Not only are these spoiled little brats entirely bereft of any remotely mature knowledge of history, they haven’t the faintest understanding of politics. Who should rule? Where do rights come from? What is freedom?
A deed signed in 1890 that gave Virginia control of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond prevents its removal, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
A judge on Monday temporarily blocked Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s order to tear down a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will be removed “as soon as possible” from Richmond’s Monument Avenue, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Thursday.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) will announce the state plans to remove the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, according to the Associated Press.
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was impeached and removed, and later criminally convicted, for trying to sell then-president-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat, has written an op-ed condemning Democrats’ ongoing impeachment effort.
A pair of Virginia Democrat lawmakers have asked Gov. Ralph Northam (D) to remove General Robert E. Lee’s statue from the U.S. Capitol next year.
Students and faculty at Washington and Lee University in Lexington city, Virginia, are demanding that the school remove photos of George Washington and Robert E. Lee from their diplomas.
A state judge in Virginia ruled on Wednesday that the city of Charlottesville cannot legally move the two statues to Confederate generals that sparked mass protests.
The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, will no longer celebrate the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia, and third president of the United States.
Joe Biden supported an effort to restore the citizenship of Confederate President Jefferson Davis during his early days in the U.S. Senate.
New York City public school teachers recently revealed that they have been instructed to reject “objectivity,” “written documentation” and “perfectionism” by Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, as part of his effort to “dismantle racism.” Carranza identified these values as tools of the “white-supremacy culture.”
Life is so good for the fabulous people on the coasts — the only group the Democratic Party really cares about –– that they can afford to devote themselves to crazy fantasies that make them feel morally superior to other people.
A judge has ruled that statues of Confederate generals in Charlottesville, Virginia, are protected by state law — which will likely halt any local efforts to remove the monuments, according to reports on the opinion released Tuesday afternoon.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said it was interesting President Donald Trump “glorifying” a “loser’ like Confederate General Robert E. Lee. When asked about Trump saying Lee was a “great general” while discussing his comments
After 21 years of plotting and planning, Gary Casteel may be getting closer to realizing his dream: A National Civil War Memorial near Gettysburg.
Police in Richmond, VA, are looking for a woman who was caught on cameras last week defacing a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Protesters in North Carolina defaced a statue to a WWII general because they thought it was a Confederate statue, according to a report.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is running as the antidote to the alleged racism of President Donald Trump, using a “fake news” claim that he praised white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The claim remains a lie.
NBC News issued a correction Sunday of its inaccurate tweet Friday that President Donald Trump had praised Confederate General Robert E. Lee at a rally in Ohio, misquoting the president and leaving out the context that he was setting up praise of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
President Trump told the story of how Abraham Lincoln struggled to find a general to beat Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the Civil War and ultimately settled on Grant.
Pittsburgh authorities removed a famous statue honoring American songwriter Stephen Foster Thursday, in response to allegations that the work was racist.
Baltimore’s Democrat Mayor, Catherine Pugh, has once again eliminated Confederate history under cover of night, this time eliminating three Confederate monuments and renaming a park for hard-charging slavery icon Harriet Tubman.
The board of trustees of a North Texas school district voted unanimously last week to replace the Confederate namesake of an elementary campus to instead honor a revered educator, but the decision raised questions over the way they handled the matter — behind closed doors.
“All are welcome. No exceptions,” reads the cheap, blue sign zip-tied to the wrought iron fence between brick pillars outside Christ Church in Alexandria. “All,” that is, except George Washington and Robert E. Lee. Or, anyone who reveres either of the two great generals. Or, even the memory of them.
