A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 — a figure that was ...

Take some time to unwind with friends, family or yourself this weekend. Below you’ll find a list of some fun events going on ...

The Mississippi town of Grenada has taken down and relocated a Confederate monument that has stood since 1910.

Highlights include an original Magnolia flag, adopted in 1861 as the first official flag of Mississippi, that has been saved by conservators after it became severely fragmented. What Became of Dr. ...

A group recommending a new Mississippi state flag has chosen five final designs — three with a magnolia blossom, one with a magnolia tree and one with a shield that has wavy lines representing ...

The flag was originally used by the slave-owning states that lost the US Civil War (1861-65). On Sunday, the measure passed in both chambers of the Mississippi legislature: in the House of ...

The flag waving grows frantic ... To be an African-American in this world isn't much different than it was in 1861, and the Mississippi of 1962 has been forming in earnest for 14 years, with ...

I saw in the TIMES, within a day or two, an article from an Iowa paper complaining of the blockade of the mouth of the Mississippi -- that the effect was to reduce the price of Western wheat ...

Coddington’s 1968 Gettysburg: A Study in Command, initiated the study of command as a distinct genre for students of the Civil War, but while much has been written since on the subject, not a great ...

1861. This has been a glorious day for Wyandotte. Three weeks ago to-day, just two miles below us and in plain sight of us, the Secessionists raised the black piratical flag of the Southern ...

The exhibit takes guests through Mississippi's history with 20 different versions of the state flag including the original magnolia flag sewn in 1861. The exhibit opened in March and will run ...

He proposed what was quickly called ”the Anaconda Plan”, to blockade the South, seize its coastal areas, and then send armies into its interior using the Mississippi and other great rivers. Although ...