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The Confederate battle flag traces to Civil War military use but was never the Confederacy’s sole national banner; historians say it became a potent symbol because the Confederacy fought to preserve s...
Donald Trump said there were "very fine people on both sides" after the 2017 Charlottesville rally and blamed "many sides" for the violence; his words were transcribed and widely reported, then interp...
The documentary trail for Albert Pike’s 1870s correspondence is scattered across university special collections, state archives and historical societies that hold dated letters and finding aids; sever...
Reporting shows multiple tweets and replies from Elon Musk that critics and civil-society groups have described as racist, racially charged, or amplifying racist ideas — for example, his endorsement o...
Donald Trump repeatedly defended his initial Charlottesville remarks by saying he had condemned violence and "neo-Nazis and white supremacists" and by insisting his “very fine people on both sides” li...
Confederate statues removed from public spaces have followed multiple paths: many were placed into museum exhibitions or artist projects that recontextualize or transform them, while others were trans...
President Donald Trump said at a press conference on August 15, 2017, that “you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides,” while also saying neo‑Nazis and white nationalists should be...
Since 2020, several U.S. cities have led removals of Confederate monuments, with , and national tallies showing hundreds of removals concentrated in Virginia and a few other states. Estimates across t...