In February 1861, representatives of these seven states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to draft the Confederate Constitution. Similar to the U.S. Constitution, the Confederate Constitution granted ...

If individuals want to pay tribute to the Confederacy, they should pay that tribute themselves and not burden Virginia ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

Virginia took another decisive step in its ongoing reckoning with its Confederate past as the House of Delegates in a bipartisan move approved legislation to strip tax-exempt status from organizations ...

The battle over Confederate school names in Shenandoah ... in Harrisonburg alleges that the school board violated the U.S. Constitution, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Equal ...

The Constitution did not mention secession; however, it did define treason. In Lincoln’s view, the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter and subsequent battles fell into that category, allowing him ...