Confederate monuments

African American activists have long coupled these efforts with fighting against racist laws and racial violence.

New evidence shows what the 30-foot-tall Confederate memorial was actually meant to commemorate.  

As people have gathered across the country to oppose police violence, they have targeted statues, monuments, and buildings commemorating white supremacy.

Why Southerners protesting structural racism in the criminal justice system have turned time and again to the monuments in their communities.

Officials in a number of towns and cities are putting up signs to explain the monuments' racist history.

After the television cameras went away, a North Carolina city debated the future of its toppled Confederate statue.

A proposal to follow the model several former Soviet States have pioneered, to deal with our own monuments to the Confederacy.

The Lee and Jackson statues were erected not to mourn their deaths, but to glorify their character.

In the last decade, taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.

The roll call for the names of 74 African Americans sold into slavery by Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis was solemn.

As museums formulate their approach to re-contextualization, they must also recognize their own histories of complicity.

A case study from Texas in how Lost Cause mythology was promoted and reified.

Confederate monuments were essential pieces of white supremacist propaganda.

How Stone Mountain could become a battlefield where neo-Confederates from across the country make their last stand.

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.

Haunting archival footage of Stone Mountain's creation.

The perspectives of older Americans have dominated the debate. It's time we pay more attention to what younger people have to say.

In history, suppressed memories, stories half-told or lied about, carry greater power for having been suppressed.

Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol

Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol.