
On August 30 the University of Texas (UT) removed the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its pedestal in front of the school’s famous clock tower, banishing it to 18 months out of the public eye before it will be placed in a less-prominent history collection indoors.
by AWR Hawkins31 Aug 2015, 5:57 PM PST0

The University of Texas at Austin announced a delay in moving statues commemorating the president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson because of court filings in state district court.
by Bob Price14 Aug 2015, 4:24 PM PST0

Danville, Virginia, was the capital of the Confederacy for eight days in April 1865, a fact Danville residents may put behind them on August 6 when the City Council convenes to consider banning Confederate flags from all of its city-owned flagpoles.
by AWR Hawkins6 Aug 2015, 8:49 AM PST0

On Saturday, hundreds upon hundreds of people from Georgia arrived at Stone Mountain, the nation’s largest Confederate memorial, to show their support for the Confederate flag. It is interesting to note that the location for this rally. Stone Mountain itself has been targeted in the anti-Confederate hysteria that began sweeping the certain parts of the country following the attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June.
by AWR Hawkins1 Aug 2015, 5:25 PM PST0

On June 24, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) ordered the Confederate battle flag removed from the state Capitol grounds in Montgomery. On July 13, the Huntsville, Alabama, chapter of the NAACP said the Confederate battle flag worn by every Alabama state trooper and emblazoned on every trooper’s vehicle needs to go away, as well.
by AWR Hawkins14 Jul 2015, 10:37 AM PST0

Amid moves around the country to banish Confederate flags from public view and remove statues of Confederate leaders from prominent places, an online petition to rename Virginia’s Jefferson Davis Highway has been launched.
by AWR Hawkins13 Jul 2015, 12:22 PM PST0

In the wake of the anti-Confederate hysteria that swept the country following the heinous June 17 attack on a black church in Charleston that killed 9, California state senator Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Orinda) has put forward a bill to ban the use of Confederate names for “schools, buildings and other public facilities.”
by AWR Hawkins8 Jul 2015, 10:26 AM PST0

On June 17, reports emerged that Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Roof obtained his gun “legally,” so calls for gun control have largely fallen on deaf ears. But a photo of Roof posing with a Confederate battle flag has managed to become the impetus for a cause célèbre to banish the Confederate battle flag from public view.
by AWR Hawkins2 Jul 2015, 5:32 PM PST0

A Richmond man has been charged with vandalizing a monument honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
by Breitbart News28 Jun 2015, 11:42 AM PST0

The left’s crusade on American history continues as New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu calls for the removal of a monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee that has stood since 1884.
by Garrett Reno24 Jun 2015, 10:06 PM PST0

On Wednesday, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham warned that the frenzied purging of Confederate flags will likely lead to Democrats and Republicans joining together to toss all traces of Southern heritage down the memory hole.
by Katie McHugh24 Jun 2015, 5:38 PM PST0

On June 24, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) order the Confederate flag to be removed from the state capitol grounds in Montgomery.
by AWR Hawkins24 Jun 2015, 12:40 PM PST0

On June 23, Sacramento Flag Works ceased sales of the the Confederate flag because Dylann Roof allegedly shot and killed nine people at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church last Wednesday.
by AWR Hawkins24 Jun 2015, 8:58 AM PST0

The left seeks to bulldoze history and free speech in pursuit of utopia. Offensiveness, justified or not, justifies the sledgehammer.
by Ben Shapiro24 Jun 2015, 8:43 AM PST0

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has joined calls to remove a statue of Kentucky-native Jefferson Davis from the state capitol building.
by AWR Hawkins23 Jun 2015, 6:49 PM PST0

After praising South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) for supporting the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol, GOP gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin called for the removal of a statue of Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky Capitol.
by AWR Hawkins23 Jun 2015, 5:51 PM PST0