Confederate monuments

The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally, was melted down in secret and will become a new piece of public art.

As Confederate monuments were erected, people turned out to vote in lower numbers in predominantly Black areas.

Richmond's last major Confederate memorial on city property, a statue of Gen. A.P. Hill, was taken down Monday morning.

After the 2020 removal of Confederate memorials, museums provide a place to confront the ugly past and find a way forward.

While cemeteries are tributes to the dead, they are really about the living. They are about those who want to commemorate something.

A Southern Poverty Law Center study identified over 1,500 publicly-displayed symbols of the Confederacy in the South and beyond.

Jon Tracey discusses the history of the creation of the Gettysburg Virginia Monument and the true reason it was erected.

Artists, museums and other groups are vying to claim fallen monuments from the Jim Crow era — but for very different reasons.

A striking photo project reveals the maintenance yards, cemeteries, and shipping containers where many of the memorials to white supremacy ended up.

We know why they were built and why they have to come down.

Why are politics so consumed with the past?

Are cemeteries the right place to put Confederate statues and memorials being removed from court houses and town squares across the South?

For people of color in particular, cemeteries can be a cruel reminders of trauma both past and present.

In the decades after the Civil War, Black Americans warned of the dangers of Confederate monuments.

When Tuskegee student Sammy Younge, Jr., was murdered in 1966, his classmates focused their righteous anger on a local monument.

The Confederate monuments did fall. But not permanently.

At places like the Gettysburg battlefield and Arlington National Cemetery, there's a new, escalating conflict over monuments that honor the Lost Cause.

A series of graphs that help explain why at least 830 monuments were erected many decades after the end of the Civil War.

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.

It was intended to be a tool of political power, sending a message against Black voting and serving as a gathering point for the Ku Klux Klan.