Battle of Liberty Place

White supremacists have long used fear of losing essential rights in their arguments.

Why Confederacy supporters erased the legacy of one its most accomplished soldiers.

The city council decides to remove four memorials that offered a distorted picture of the city’s past.

The storming of the Capitol was an expression of the antidemocratic strands in American history.

Starting the process will rein in a president undermining American ideals—and bring the debate into Congress, where it belongs.

In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives.

Once General Robert E. Lee’s right-hand man, General Longstreet would become known as ‘the Judas of the Lost Cause.’

New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.

Why New Orleans took down monuments that had been installed by supporters of the "Cult of the Lost Cause."

Take a deep dive into this drawing by famed illustrator Thomas Nast.

What is to be done with a landscape whose features carry the legacy of violence?