During the bloody years when the Civil War tore apart the United States, one place remained whole: a symbol of America's early promise and future hope. Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George ...

The symbols are not merely historical artifacts, they represent how certain groups choose to remember the past. Many Confederate monuments were erected not immediately after the Civil War ...

As the state agency said, the Confederate flag is a historic symbol of the pro-slavery South ... a bearded man dressed in a gray Civil War uniform clutching a Confederate flag, wearing a belt ...