The Shenandoah County school board voted to reinstate the Confederate names of its schools.

Mississippi still marks Confederate Heritage Month every April.

You can call the United Daughters of the Confederacy a lot of things. But racist? Why, some of their best friends …

An astonishing one-third of Capitol artworks depict slaveholders. Will they remain? It’s largely up to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

Most people don’t know it, but there’s a long history in this country of noncitizen voting. Even the Confederacy embraced it.

A gargantuan monument to the rebel general will come down in the capital of the Confederacy.

The Capitol insurrection was born of a violent minoritarian tradition that is as American as apple pie—and it isn’t done yet.

Why we can’t afford to make peace with white supremacists

Republicans like Tom Cotton gloss over the religion’s role in establishing slavery and perpetuating white supremacy.

The twenty-eighth U.S. president was a white supremacist. We all know this, in the abstract. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.

The ideology of the men who celebrated the United States while fighting for its dissolution is still very much alive.

The Hollywood classic is a soap opera and a war movie smashed together. It’s also really, really racist.

Why was the Golden State once chock-full of memorials to the Southern rebels?

A new museum and lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, constitute a watershed moment in the way America remembers its racist past.

How gun culture and radical politics are combining to produce a new kind of zealot

The group Take ‘Em Down NOLA has an ambitious goal—to rid the city of all its tributes to slavery’s defenders.

Critics say “Maryland, My Maryland" is a disgrace. The governor disagrees.

And they should embrace the idea of celebrating the country's reunion