“I think it wiser moreover not to keep open the sores of war ... which gave black American children access to all schools, the Confederate battle flag popped up more and more.

was not the official national flag of the Confederate States of America. That flag, which in its original form was a square flag, was a battle flag, and first used as a regimental flag before ...

The Confederate flag is not petrified in the 1860s, only to be safely observed in a historical context. The Confederate battle flag’s message of hate has long survived the lost cause it once ...

The man charged in the attack had boasted of racist beliefs and posed in photographs with Confederate flags and symbols. South Carolina is not alone in flying an image of the battle flag on state ...

By the early 20th century, white Southerners had mythologized an imagined South that fought the war not to uphold slavery ... adoption of the Confederate battle flag as a party symbol led to ...

the focus is on the Confederate battle flag and all the controversy it engenders, writes Charles Henry Rowell. Mr. Rowell, the editor, explains that one of his aims was “to represent if not a ...

South Carolina’s Confederate battle flag is the last on any state government grounds. With its removal, the nation would finally be saying that the flag is not a symbol worthy of respect.

An image circulated online promoted the claim that the colors of the Confederate battle flag ... use of red in the flag — which has become known as the "Stars and Bars" (not a historically ...

“I think it wiser moreover not to keep open the sores of war ... which gave black American children access to all schools, the Confederate battle flag popped up more and more.