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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The University of Texas said on Thursday it would move a statute of Confederate president Jefferson Davis from the campus to an educational exhibit in response to protests ...
Protesters in Richmond, Virginia, ripped down a monument of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Video and images of the aftermath show Davis’s bust laying in the famed cobble road of Monument ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An impassioned plea by a descendant of the Confederate president seemed to swing momentum as South Carolina legislators debated whether to remove the rebel battle flag from the ...
Mississippi observes Jefferson Davis' birthday, combined with Memorial Day, as a state holiday. This is one of three Confederate holidays observed in Mississippi, including Robert E. Lee/MLK Day and ...
The United States has indicted a president previously — the leader of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis. The Davis case may offer certain analogs to the prosecutions of Donald Trump.
Why Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution and remains relevant. By Mark A. Graber The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on tourism at Beauvoir, the former home of Jefferson Davis.
The filing of an appellate brief, by an activist ethics outfit known as the Center for Responsibility and Ethics at Washington, seeking to bar President Trump from the ballot in Colorado escalates the ...
In each edition of web_crawlr we have exclusive original content every day. On Tuesdays our Senior Reporter Tricia Crimmins explains the legislation that is captivating the internet in her “Digital ...
The national debate over Confederate war memorials has fed a lot of interesting public polls, but none quite like the latest Public Policy Polling survey. White House Report Card: Democrats gift Trump ...
A mountain named after a Confederate leader is getting a name change, officials said Thursday. Jeff Davis Peak in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest of California will cut its ties with its namesake ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. – One voice stood out before South Carolina lawmakers voted Thursday to take down the Confederate flag. Rep. Jenny Horne, a descendant of the Confederate president, called on her ...