Robert E. Lee

Reflections from the Naming Commission, and the front lines of the army's war on the Lost Cause.

Confederate monuments helped to erase the history of those white and black southerners who remained loyal and were willing to give their lives to save the United States.

A Washington Post investigation of more than 400 artworks in the U.S. Capitol building found that one-third honor enslavers or Confederates.

Georgia’s competitive runoff election is the result of centuries of white supremacist efforts.

Today, it’s still nearly impossible to see the Black people whose presence, tramped down for a century and a half, is why this commemorative landscape exists.

All the articles from the University of Virginia's student newspaper covering the "Unite the Right" rally, and the grief, activism, and reforms it sparked.

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

Freedman's Village, created in Arlington, VA at the end of the Civil War, became a thriving community of Black residents as part of Reconstruction.

Marie Bankhead Owen led campaigns to purge anti-Confederate lessons from Southern classrooms, and all but erased Black history from the Alabama state archives.

The inequitable dismissal of US soldiers following the conclusion of the Civil War.

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.

While he opposed slavery and southern secession early in his career, as president Andrew Johnson turned out to be an unsightly bigot.

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

Romanticized notions of Southern gentility are at odds with historical reality as the lives, culture and contributions of the enslaved are becoming integral on tours.

A comparison of the "Lost Cause" narratives from the Confederacy and Mexico's side of the Mexican-American War.

Fake news has been central to the Lost Cause narrative since its inception, employed to justify and amplify the symbolism of Confederate monuments and flags.

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

How Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interpreted Reconstruction by translating Dante.

Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.