The violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend, in which one woman was killed and dozens more injured, stemmed from a protest led by white nationalists over the proposed ...

The U.S. Capitol has unveiled a statue of teenage civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns, who is known for protesting poor ...

The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school.

A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted away from its place of prominence in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday and carted off to storage, years after its threatened removal became a ...

One of the largest Confederate monuments in the U.S. came down Wednesday as workers removed a figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Virginia's capital city for more than a century and became ...

A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform is back on display in the West Point's library, several years after the storied academy removed honors to the Civil War military ...

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LAKESHORE, ONT.—Across the Detroit River was freedom’s shore for American slaves in the 1800s. And the Puce Memorial Cemetery east of Windsor became the final haven for hundreds of them. Now the ...

Starting Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol will display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at ...