MONTGOMERY, Ala. — With no fanfare, Alabama Robert Bentley ordered the removal of four Confederate flags from a memorial at the Alabama State Capitol on Wednesday amid a growing controversy over their ...

Having grown up in a small town in Alabama, I am incredibly familiar with confederate imagery. Most prominent among these ...

A 150-year-old Confederate flag was recently restored to its former glory thanks to two Eufaula citizens and a community effort. The flag, which hung on a flagpole in Shorter Mansion, belonged to John ...

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Mary Norman was shocked Thursday afternoon when Auburn Councilman Arthur L. Dowdell pulled up a Confederate flag placed on her great-grandfather’s grave and snapped it in half, she said. Dowdell, who ...

April is Confederate Heritage and History Month in Alabama, and one of the South’s enemies in the state has resigned. Great men north and south of the Mason-Dixon line say tragedy strikes when a ...

On July 31, 1995, the late Bill Casteel in his byline column in the Chattanooga Times presented another side of the ...

The Confederate battle flag may have been lowered over the Alabama Capitol grounds in Montgomery, but nearly 200 miles away in the northern Alabama city of Huntsville, sales of the southern cross ...

The American Civil War ended in the 1860s. In the 1950s, the city of Montgomery adopted a flag with Confederate symbolism. That’s why Jeremiah Treece, a 17-year-old student at Booker T. Washington ...