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 ...

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 ...

This story is part of The Confederate Reckoning, a collaborative project of USA TODAY Network newsrooms across the South to examine the legacy of the Confederacy and its influence on systemic racism ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...