A matter of ownership: Lee marker and Marion Square

Charleston Mayor William Cogswell is asking for a roadside marker honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee be moved to a militia’s headquarters on Meeting Street.
Opinion

America’s contract to protect white women has always been tenuous

ICE’s killing of Renee Good has revealed how the state will only defend those who uphold a white racial order. A 1915 film points to the origins of this social pact ...

Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino said he saw nothing racist in photo depicting him as a Confederate general

Records show Bovino was emailed the photo of slave-owning Gen. William Mahone in 2018, with the heading "Chief Bovino." He ...
Military.com

Arrested and Unarmed, He Led a Cavalry Charge and Became the First Italian-American Medal of Honor Recipient

On June 17, 1863, Col. Luigi Palma di Cesnola was forced to watch his men get slaughtered near the village of Aldie, Virginia. Just hours earlier, his superior officer had placed him under arrest for ...

Polly Cooper, an Oneida woman who helped save Washington’s army, is honored on $1 coin

EDGEWOOD, N.M. (AP) — The reverse side of the U.S. Mint’s 2026 Sacagawea $1 coin will feature Polly Cooper, a woman from the ...