How the Confederate flag came to be. Though inextricably linked with the Confederacy, the flag was never its official symbol. When rebels fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, they flew a blue ...

But the coverage of this protest was not fair. It was selective, incomplete and dangerously sanitized. While the article quoted signs critical of Israel and cited multiple reports portraying ...

The memorial has been criticized for its sanitized depiction of slavery, and its removal is part of a military-wide effort to take down Confederate symbols from bases, ships and other facilities.

symbols, displays, monuments, or paraphernalia" commemorating the Confederacy. Arlington's Confederate Memorial offers a "mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized ...