WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is rethinking its traditional connection to Confederate Army symbols, mindful of their divisiveness at a time the nation is wrestling with questions of race after the ...

The Confederate privateer corvette CSS Alabama in a painting by Samuel Walters. It flies the first flag of the Confederacy. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The country was split into two ...

“Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White” tells the tale of a free Black man captured during one of the Alabama’s many raids and forced into serving the racist, self-serving rebel ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has stripped the name of a U.S. Navy veteran and gay rights activist from a ship and moved to return the last names of Confederate generals to U.S. Army bases. What's in ...