Alexander Stephens's infamous “Cornerstone” speech remains controversial even today. The simple revisionist narrative is that ...

11 southern states came together to break away and form the Confederate States of America. The new country had its own President - Jefferson Davis, who served from 1861 to 1865. He was from ...

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On Monday, as President Donald Trump’s inauguration coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, some of the president’s most ...

The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president. In his inaugural address, delivered on March 4 ...

At the foot of both sits the iron cross of the Confederate States of America. As the US grapples with the question of what to do with its controversial memorials to the Confederacy, across the ...

The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

do hereby give our solemn parole of honor that we will not hereafter serve in the armies of the Confederate States, or in any military capacity whatever, against the United States of America, or ...