NEW YORK (AP) — When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a…
Though the mountains rang with the sound of shot and shells, a full-blown engagement in Kentucky had not transpired. But all that was about to…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Helen Viola Jackson’s 1936 marriage to James Bolin was unusual to say the least: He was 93 and in declining health, and s…
Young men once rode horses to carry mail from Missouri to California in the unprecedented time of only 10 days!
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — After decades of debate, legislators are finally sensing strong support for repealing Maryland’s state song, a Civil War…
FRANKLIN, TENN. (AP) — The Tennessee Division of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans says it is taking legal action to prevent Williamson Cou…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A state agency announced Monday that it was installing fencing around an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Le…
“Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause,” by Ty Seidule (St. Martin’s Press)
Legends come in all size, shapes, and forms. Some are bigger than life even if in a small package.
Over the course of twenty-seven years I have attended numerous reenactments, dedications, memorial services and offered presentations to diffe…
MORRISTOWN- Tenn. Carl Reece Sexton, age 88, of Knoxville, crossed over the river to rest in the shade of the trees and live in heaven with hi…
It was about twenty years ago at the Nashville Fair Grounds, during the Mike Kent Civil War Show, that I first met my dapper ole friend Reece …
I find there are no words to express my feelings for the loss of Reece Sexton except for shocked and stunned. I talked to him via Facebook mes…
Wildcat Mountain, Kentucky was the site of a solemn memorial service honoring the Confederate and Union soldiers that were engaged in the Batt…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has represented Virginia in the U.S. Capitol for 111 years has been removed.
Some people spend a life time trying to find that mystical formula that endears one person to another. Most never achieve it. There are those …
A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet — optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with rac…
During the few months my home state of Illinois, as well as much of the nation, has been operating under a stay-at-home notice due to the terr…
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