On this day in 1978, President Jimmy Carter officially restored the full citizenship rights of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis, signing an act from Congress that ended a century-long ...

Most Americans like to believe that this is a nation of laws, where justice is blind to power and status. But that is a bit ...

Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States of America, a white supremacist government, from 1861 to 1865. Since 1901, Alabama has marked Jefferson Davis' Birthday as a state holiday on ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — During his Thursday press conference, Gov. Andy Beshear stated that he believes that the Jefferson Davis Memorial should be removed from the capitol rotunda. "I believe that ...

Mississippi’s two senators are ready to change the state flag, but they still honor and defend Jefferson Davis, the man who served as the president of the Confederacy and whose statue stands ...

Jefferson Davis has been having a bad summer. The University of Texas has decided to move the statue of Davis that has been standing prominently on its Austin campus since World War I to a museum ...

Legend has it that an on-the-run Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, was wrapped in woman's clothing when captured at Irwinville, Ga., by Union troops before dawn on May ...

This article was first published on reason.com. Jefferson Davis has been having a bad summer. The University of Texas has decided to move the statue of Davis that has been standing prominently on its ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Facing a temporary restraining order, the University of Texas at Austin ...

The monument to Confederate President Jefferson Davis was taken off its pedestal early Thursday morning, marking the halfway point of Mayor Mitch Landrieu's effort to remove statues honoring three ...

The statue will be moved to a museum. A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is moved from its location in front of the school's main tower on the University of Texas campus, Aug. 30, 2015, ...