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The U.S. Navy has finally shed the last two ship names that honored the Confederacy — and renamed one of them in honor of a man whose life-story reads like an action movie hero. The USS Chancelorsville is now called the USS Robert Smalls, the man who stole a Confederate steamer loaded with guns and […]
Cutting Confederate Ties, the U.S. Navy Names Ships for a Pioneering Female Oceanographer and a Daring Enslaved Pilot The U.S. Navy has announced it is renaming one of its oceanographic survey ships after Marie Tharp, a Columbia University geologist, oceanographer and cartographer who drew the first modern maps of the ocean floors. The vessel previously […]
Two years ago, Connor Williams, an advanced doctoral student in history and African American Studies at Yale, was invited to help reshape how Americans memorialize the U.S. Civil War. Williams was selected to be lead historian of the Naming Commission (formally known as the Commission on the Naming of Items of the Department of Defense), […]
“At a time in which there was so much that needed to be done in America, he rolled up his sleeves and stepped in and made an enormous difference. He led a life of extraordinary consequence,” said Mr. Moore, who said he is planning to run for his relative’s congressional seat. Marie Tharp aboard the […]
WASHINGTON, DC — A Delaware man who threatened a Black police officer with a pole attached to a Confederate battle flag as he stormed the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Thursday to three years in prison. Kevin Seefried, 53, tearfully apologized for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot before U.S. District Judge Trevor […]
Kevin Seefried is seen carrying a Confederate flag inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (via FBI court filing). The Delaware man who carried a Confederate flag in the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6 riot will spend the next three years behind bars. The picture of Kevin Seefried, 53, carrying a Confederate […]
Devon Henry stands near the former site of the Robert E. Lee statue, which his company was hired to remove, on Monument Avenue in Richmond on Dec. 6. (Parker Michels-Boyce/for The Washington Post) RICHMOND, Va. — Workers in bright yellow vests circled up in the morning chill. Some clutched cups of Starbucks coffee, a last […]
The United States Military Academy at West Point will start removing Confederate symbols from its campus, including taking down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform from the academy’s library, officials said. Over the next year, West Point will also remove, relocate, modify or rename busts, memorials, streets and buildings […]
Comment on this story Comment RICHMOND — Workers began dismantling this city’s last major icon to the Lost Cause Monday morning, lifting a statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill from its base in the middle of a busy intersection before a small crowd of onlookers. After workers cut a single bolt holding the bronze statue […]
Several years ago, I was driving on a rural road when I came up behind a pickup truck with a Confederate-flag sticker on the back window. This isn’t such an unusual sight in some parts of the United States, but this instance surprised me: The truck had Pennsylvania plates, and the road was in Gettysburg, […]