Civil War hero Robert Smalls could one day stand just outside the Statehouse visitors’ entrance, clad in the three-piece suit ...

“Fort fisher was essentially America’s largest sand castle ever built,” Steele said. ”Construction began around early in 1861 ...

He said the Confederate monument is "specifically and repeatedly referenced in the application documents as being an important part of the park, and a map of the Springfield historic district ...

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Meanwhile, various groups wrestling for control over the Washington National Monument Society threw a wrench into work on the memorial. Then, between 1856 and 1876, with the Civil War ...

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Southern textbooks altered historical facts in lessons about the "War Between the States," cities and counties were named or renamed, and Confederate monuments were erected in Southern public squares.