| 单词 | Jefferson Davis |
| 例句 | What was the name of Jefferson Davis’s wife? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z On it are written the keys to top-secret coded Confederate messages that link him with Jefferson Davis’s office in Richmond and with the million-dollar gold fund in Montreal. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He collected himself and said, “Miss Trotter threw a pot at the TV just after the governor stood where Jefferson Davis had once stood, and shouted, ‘Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.’” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his government have not been captured. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It was during this time that the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was added as a holiday in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Following the swearing-in of Andrew Johnson as the seventeenth president, Stanton had issued a reward for Jefferson Davis and other Confederate officials, naming them as assassination conspirators. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z At the corner of Jefferson Davis and Canal, she pointed to the First United Methodist Church. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederacy. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t sure where he would go today, so he chose a new route, this time going back to Dart, then east on Earhart, heading to Jefferson Davis Parkway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Confederate President Jefferson Davis was on the run, the subject of his own massive manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In October 1864, Booth traveled to the Canadian city of Montreal, where he met with agents of Jefferson Davis. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z At one point, Lee pauses to write a letter to Confed- \\ erate president Jefferson Davis, saying that his army is in retreat and can no longer defend Richmond. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Soon Lincoln finds himself on the corner of Twelfth and Clay Streets, staring at the former home of Jefferson Davis. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “No, sir, it was a general named Curtis. He was the big one, I think, and under him was Sigel and lots of other officers—one of’em by the name of Jefferson Davis.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He marches knowing that a letter has been prepared by Jefferson Davis, a letter which offers peace. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After earlier negotiations had broken down, Confederate President Jefferson Davis had ordered Johnston to retreat while the politicians held out for more favorable terms of surrender. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Until now, Booth has taken orders from Jefferson Davis. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z On the way home, they passed the post office at Jefferson Davis and Lafitte, the staging ground for helicopter rescues. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Jefferson Davis...was married...twice. His first wife...Sarah...was the daughter of...President...Zachary Taylor. But Sarah...died...of malaria...three months after...they...were...married. He remarried...” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z They searched the house and found evidence: photographs of Confederate generals, one of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, some ammunition, and a photo of John Wilkes Booth, hidden behind a picture frame. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Figures like Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, the men who are front and center in most Civil War narratives, are seldom mentioned by Ayers’s subjects. Seeing the Civil War From the Ground Up 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Davis’s pro-slavery remarks provide Noah Feldman with both the epigraph and the title of his new book about Jefferson Davis’s nemesis, Abraham Lincoln, which seems a very odd choice. Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery? Jefferson Davis Thought So. Abraham Lincoln Didn’t. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z One in Virginia held a monument to Jefferson Davis, who was president of the Confederacy. Sculpture of enslaved explorer mysteriously appears in Oregon park 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Some of these are monuments that honor well-known figures like Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson, while some are meant to commemorate the unknown fallen. As Confederate monument debate continues, Kehinde Wiley’s new statue challenges the heroic narrative 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis lies prostrate at the Valentine, a downtown Richmond museum. For Richmond, a Compelling New Chapter 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z The UDC never fulfilled its vision of a continuous cross-country Davis byway, but today multiple Jefferson Davis Highways — also named at the behest of the UDC — are scattered across the country. When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z I’m talking of course about Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. On ‘S.N.L.,’ Biden Urges Covid-Weary Nation to Stop Seeing ‘Spider-Man’ 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z The effort to bring Jefferson Davis home to Fairview shows just how fraught navigating that conflict is. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z I met her during the McCarthy period, under circumstances that persuaded me that she — or her friends — would have considered Jefferson Davis a Communist. Review: ‘The Complete Stories,’ by Flannery O’Connor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z His views continued to change in 2002 when he went to the same Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., that Jefferson Davis attended. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Not the one honoring Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy and defender of slavery. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The grandson of a Confederate colonel, Strode wrote a three-volume biography of Jefferson Davis, along with a half-dozen travel books; he also directed the University of Alabama’s theatre troupe. When Harper Lee Doodled in Shakespeare Class 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The towering Jefferson Davis obelisk continues to be a landmark for him in the flat Kentucky countryside. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Chestnut was once named for Jefferson Davis; some white locals still refer to it by the Confederate leader's name. From this Selma house, Martin Luther King made civil rights history 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z In that, he is no different than Jefferson Davis or Patrick Pearse. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z The phrase “states’ rights” is an oft-employed code word used in defense of racist policies; it was, in particular, a favorite term of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Donald Trump is not an LGBT-friendly candidate: His presidency would be a disaster for human rights 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z The chapter's leader is calling for the removal of the Confederate Memorial Carving that depicts Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. NAACP wants Confederate carving removed from Georgia's Stone Mountain 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z He now hopes to transform some Louisiana property into either an old-folks home called the City of Life or an amusement park named Jefferson Davis Land. Review | ‘True Grit’ is a modern classic, but it’s not the only great work by Charles Portis 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z He was an unrepentant racist who alternately dismissed or fetishized blacks, bragged about his white-supremacist uncle and toadied up to Jefferson Davis and other Confederate stalwarts, drawing parallels between Southern secessionism and Irish republicanism. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z To be fair to Jefferson Davis, being president of the Confederate States of America seemed like a prestigious position going in. Chief of staff, Oscars host, Popchips spokesperson: The allure of the doomed job 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z In the days following George Floyd’s murder, protesters ringed Richmond’s Robert E. Lee memorial with graffiti, and soon after, they toppled a nearby statue of Jefferson Davis, dragging the Confederate president in the streets. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Exhibit designers created social networking pages like Facebook to show how Union Gen. George McClellan once was a protege of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, for example. National Archives puts Civil War vaults on display 2010-04-27T22:35:00Z Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, which runs from Florida to California, was named in the 1920s. Why the case for the removal of Confederate memorials isn’t so clear-cut 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis, the man who would eventually become the Confederacy's first and only president, was originally a senator from Mississippi who opposed early calls for secession. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z In 2009 he released “Vicksburg 1863,” an account of the Union siege that brought a novelist’s touch to historical figures like Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman and Jefferson Davis, president of the confederacy. ‘Forrest Gump’ author Winston Groom dead at 77 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z It joins other public statues depicting Southern or Confederate figures, including Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, that some are arguing represent the country's racist past and should be removed. Jefferson Memorial, Confederate statues enter national race debate 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z "Search for the Jefferson Davis: Trader, Slaver, Raider," released in March, tells the story of a merchant ship-turned-slaver-turned-privateer that was renamed after the president of the Confederacy. Black seaman's 1861 heroics recalled in new film 2011-07-07T15:30:30Z Oh, and Jefferson Davis was in cahoots with Adam; the rebel army was manned, or thinged, mostly by vampires. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Four-score and Seven Corpses 2012-06-21T13:40:09Z The site consisted of four disparate parcels, including a 35-acre estate with a replica of Jefferson Davis’s house, since demolished. Transforming Tulsa, Starting with a Park 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis called it “the nail-head that holds the South’s two halves together.” ‘Vicksburg’ Review: The Falling Tide of Gray 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z I had NO idea that Confederate Memorial Day and Jefferson Davis’ birthday were state holidays. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z Last week, the University of Texas began moving a statue of the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, away from the center of the Austin campus. Lonnae O’Neal: I drive past a Confederate flag nearly every day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z In my state of Alabama, Jefferson Davis’s birthday is a state holiday, Confederate Memorial Day is a state holiday. The author of ‘Just Mercy’ says we’ve made talking about race political — and that has to change 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Senate that would lead to the famous congressional compromise over slavery later that year, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi delivered a florid floor speech that lamented the impending ruin of the nation. Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery? Jefferson Davis Thought So. Abraham Lincoln Didn’t. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z It features Generals Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee, along with Jefferson Davis, who served as the president of the Confederacy. A Confederate memorial towers over Stone Mountain, Georgia. A local African American woman wants it to stay there. 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Protesters in Richmond tore down a statue of Columbus and rolled it into a lake — and the next day, brought down a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. Controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down. Fixing the world that built them is harder. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z A widower twice her age in a state of perpetual mourning for his first wife, Jefferson Davis was a “girdled tree,” Varina realized, “bark cut and peeled away past the living flesh.” The First Lady of the Confederacy Considers Her Painful Past 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z “There is a dichotomy to Jefferson Davis,” he said in the office of the museum. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The historian later suggests that Jefferson Davis, the first president of the Confederacy, was not racist because he “adopted a little black orphan child and raised him and secured his rights as a free person.” Jim Jefferies nails what’s wrong with preserving Confederate monuments 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The right-hand side of the April 15, 1865, New York Herald features a 10-day-old dispatch about Jefferson Davis’s reaction to the fall of Richmond; the left-hand column labels the shocking news: “IMPORTANT.” Newspaper exhibition follows the day of Lincoln’s death, edition by edition 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, officials at the University of Texas at Austin removed a public statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis following complaints that the work of art glorified the South's racist past. Thomas Jefferson statue incites debate at Mizzou 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z But don’t try entering Richmond Highway in Arlington into MapQuest, which still uses Jefferson Davis Highway. When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Her husband was an aide to Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, thought the Civil War was hypocritical folly from the start. Fiction Chronicle: First Lady of the Confederacy 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In 1922, at the behest of the UDC, the Virginia General Assembly named Route 1 — from the 14th Street Bridge to Clarksville, near the border with North Carolina — Jefferson Davis Highway. When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Critics called him a journeyman storyteller who strived for historical accuracy, populating his books with the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. John Jakes, Whose Historical Novels Hit the Jackpot, Dies at 90 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z "We no longer want to see a statue that glorifies the values of Jefferson Davis, who while leading the Confederacy, owned a plantation with over 100 slaves," the petition states. Jefferson Davis statue deemed racist to be relocated at UT Austin 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z If you were driving through Arlington in September, you might have noticed a change that was almost five years in the making: Jefferson Davis Highway was no more. When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z At the University of Texas, Austin, a public statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was reportedly vandalized this week with the words "Black Lives Matter" and "Bump the Chumps." Jefferson Memorial, Confederate statues enter national race debate 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Patrick Lewis, 34, grew up going to the park in the ’90s on Jefferson Davis Day, which marks Davis’s birthday. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z And then there’s Jefferson Davis’ birthday, also officially celebrated in a handful of states. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z Later in the war, she served as an emissary in Europe for no less than Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Karen Abott's history of four Civil War women who spied or lied 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z His handsome red brick church, now named Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, lies a block from the Alabama State Capitol presided over by a statue of Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. 36 Hours in Montgomery, Ala. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z On the one hand, the Duke boys’ car is the General Lee; on the other hand, their ultimate enemy–Jefferson Davis Hogg–is named for the president of the CSA. What Did The Dukes of Hazzard Really Say About the South? 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The city council of Alexandria, Virginia, is asking the public whether Jefferson Davis Highway should be renamed. I’d rather drive on Highway McHighwayface than another Jefferson Davis Highway 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Workers in Kentucky made a surprising discovery while removing a statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis from the state capitol on Saturday — a bottle of bourbon and an 84-year-old newspaper. Removal of Jefferson Davis statue in Kentucky reveals surprise bourbon discovery 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Then there’s Jefferson Davis Falkins, the actual robber, who has notably bad luck with women. Books of The Times: In Thomas Perry?s ?Strip,? Affable Thugs, Rough Justice 2010-05-26T22:24:00Z While growing up in Georgia, Hale had spent part of her summers with her grandparents in Jefferson Davis County in Mississippi. She was told her grandfather had saved a Black man. Then she dug up the ugly truth 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Confederate leader Jefferson Davis was their president, they declared, not Abraham Lincoln. Opinion: Trump is running despite the 14th Amendment. He's not the first insurrectionist to do so 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z It was used against people like Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his vice-president Alexander Stephens, both of whom had served in Congress, but it has seldom been invoked since. The 14th Amendment plan to disqualify Trump, explained 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Its colossal, mountainside sculpture of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson is the largest Confederate monument ever crafted and has special protection enshrined in Georgia law. Civil rights groups condemn ‘Soul Fest’ concerts at Georgia park with giant Confederate carving 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Titus and his small team of home-grown deputies are called to a shooting at Jefferson Davis High School. Plumbing a town's racist legacy, Southern noir author S.A. Cosby vaults his own high bar 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z He knew little about the huge rendering of Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis carved into a granite mountain in Georgia. Rubenstein spent years preserving objects. Now he’s looking for meaning. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Kentucky has public holidays for the birthdays of Washington; Lincoln; Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy; and Franklin D. Roosevelt. How One President’s Day Became Presidents’ Day 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The gargantuan bas relief depicting Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson on horseback appears on a granite outcropping about 15 miles east of downtown Atlanta. How Stone Mountain weaponized art against Black people, in a compelling new documentary 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Section 3 targeted Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. senator who was president of the rebellious Confederacy, along with other leaders of the attempted overthrow of the U.S. Opinion | Criminal prosecution is the wrong idea. Use the 14th Amendment on Trump. 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Enslaver Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, is honored in the Capitol with a statue sent by Mississippi. Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? His neighbors included future Confederate president Jefferson Davis. How an abolitionist painting set in D.C. became proslavery propaganda 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Richmond has already removed statues honouring rebel military commander Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. Former seat of Confederacy takes down last monument 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Most postcards of the huge granite outcropping that rises abruptly on the outskirts of Atlanta dwell on one section: a vast carving of three giants of the Confederacy — Jefferson Davis, Robert E. How Stone Mountain weaponized art against Black people, in a compelling new documentary 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Richmond has since removed about a dozen statues and other memorials, from cannons and highway markers to statues of the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, and the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Richmond’s Last Confederate Statue Is Removed 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Franklin Pierce, another former president and a friend of Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president, was seen as a Southern sympathizer during the war. Trump Embraces Extremism as He Seeks to Reclaim Office 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z It has removed about a dozen statues and other memorials, from cannons and highway markers to statues of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. Richmond Can Remove Last Confederate Statue, Judge Rules 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z A few miles from town, one road is labeled the “Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway.” The Racial Divide Herschel Walker Couldn’t Outrun 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z When he was in Congress, future Confederate leader Jefferson Davis fought unsuccessfully to alter Thomas Crawford’s design for the base of the Freedom statue atop of the U.S. Perspective | A new book explores the fasces, a symbol of power — and of unity 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Others, like Mississippi senator Jefferson Davis, put forward a more moderate approach by demanding constitutional protection of slavery. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z At the center of town on the courthouse grounds, you’ll find a monument to Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president — installed when the Ku Klux Klan dominated Uvalde politics. Opinion | I’m from Uvalde. I’m not surprised this happened. 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z In Richmond in 2020, protesters toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue, and the city removed three other statues of Confederate figures there. Richmond Can Remove Last Confederate Statue, Judge Rules 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Neither did the aspiring Jefferson Davis share what he found enticing about the prospect. Opinion | As Trump loses kingmaker status, he becomes more dangerous 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis, an activist from Wisconsin, said he had asked Mr. Eastman to join the meeting after hearing about his work on behalf of Mr. Trump following the election. Trump Allies Continue Legal Drive to Erase His Loss, Stoking Election Doubts 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z However, it broke up after northern Democrats, who made up a majority of delegates, rejected Jefferson Davis’s efforts to protect slavery in the territories. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Confederate sympathizers added their own flourish: A bereft Jefferson Davis never stopped searching for his little Jim. Jim Limber and the myth of the Confederate president’s adopted Black son 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Memminger and Confederate President Jefferson Davis hoped that withholding cotton from the mills of Manchester and Marseille would pressure England and France to throw their support to the new Confederacy. Review | The Civil War’s financial battles 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Upper South states refused to participate, therefore, when the seven seceding states met in Montgomery, Alabama, in February 1861 to form the Confederate States of America, installing Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as its provisional president. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In 2017, a Florida woman sued a Confederate group, saying a camel bit her at the site of the Jefferson Davis home, causing fractures and other serious injuries. Camel on the loose kills two people near Tennessee petting zoo 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Lee also hoped that a significant Confederate victory in the North would convince Great Britain and France to extend support to Jefferson Davis’s government and encourage the North to negotiate peace. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The statue was installed, instead, on the lawn of Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis home and library in Biloxi, Miss., owned and operated since 1903 by the Mississippi division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Jim Limber and the myth of the Confederate president’s adopted Black son 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z The Confederate leaders wrote a constitution and elected Jefferson Davis as president. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The end of slavery stemmed from the actions of ordinary Americans like John and Elizabeth Boston as much as decisions by Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z On Christmas Eve 1862, Confederate President Jefferson Davis declared that any “negro slave” caught while fighting for the Union would be returned to the state from which he escaped. 200,000 Black men fought in the Civil War. Some lawmakers want to give them the Congressional Gold Medal. 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Fire-Eaters pressured Jefferson Davis to take Fort Sumter and thereby demonstrate the Confederate government’s resolve. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “Jefferson Davis was so discussed and well-known that it wouldn’t have been difficult for Jim, if he wanted to, to go find him.” Jim Limber and the myth of the Confederate president’s adopted Black son 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z It was in a Confederate state, so Confederate president Jefferson Davis thought the Union force should surrender the fort. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis had stressed in his inaugural address that the South was defending American rights of self-government. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “Jefferson Davis has never been called great in the house. He was the president of the Confederate States of America. We would say no more, no less than that,” Wieland said. Black worker at Confederate site raises race complaint 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Even Jefferson Davis’s vice president Alexander Stephens opposed conscription, the seizure of enslaved property to work for the Confederacy, and suspension of habeas corpus. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z And what should be made of the inscription on the back, in the hand of Varina Davis, the wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis? Jim Limber and the myth of the Confederate president’s adopted Black son 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis sent soldiers to help the governor. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Defending and protecting the rights...which our fathers bequeathed to us,” Jefferson Davis likewise argued, southerners will “renew such sacrifices as our fathers made.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Still to go: pedestals from statues honoring Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and Confederate soldiers and sailors, as well as the stone base of a Confederate cannon. The last stands: Richmond starts taking down Confederate statues’ pedestals, too 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z The two senators, Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Revels, were both from Mississippi, the home state of former U.S. senator and later Confederate president Jefferson Davis. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “James Henry Brooks adopted by Mrs. Jefferson Davis during the War and taken from her after our capture. A great pet in the family and known as Jim Limber.” Jim Limber and the myth of the Confederate president’s adopted Black son 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Abraham Lincoln, the president of the Union, and Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, were both skilled leaders. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis had been born in Kentucky under modest circumstances, but his family moved south and rose into the planter class of Mississippi. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Surely the 14th Amendment’s framers did not mean to make Jefferson Davis ineligible for the Mississippi state legislature but eligible for the presidency of the United States. Opinion | How Congress can keep Trump and other insurrectionists out of public office 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z The undertaking of removing them, along with likenesses of Jefferson Davis, J.E.B. Opinion | We need innovative solutions for relocating Confederate statues 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Clyburn dismissed critics who said the president went too far compared the choice on voting reforms to choosing between Abraham Lincoln or Confederacy leader Jefferson Davis. Rep. James Clyburn: Voting bills are not dead, but on life support 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z He revealed he was talking about Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States, who was charged with treason after the Civil War. ‘SNL’ Weekend Update mocks Biden as 'acquired taste' for nation that lost that sense to coronavirus 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z An ebullient Jefferson Davis urged his army to counterattack, but the task was too much for Beauregard’s famished, exhausted, and disorganized soldiers. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z "The question is whether comparing members to Bull Conner and Jefferson Davis moves the bills closer to passage." Senate Democrats pile on President Biden's very bad week 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z For more than three days, Corrie Hogan and 20 other people were without power at a motel along Jefferson Davis Highway in Stafford County where they live. After snowstorm, ongoing power outages plague thousands in Virginia: ‘30 degrees in my living room’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The collection includes monuments to a number of other prominent Confederate figures - including former Confederate president Jefferson Davis - as well as a ceremonial cannon and a monument to Confederate soldiers and sailors. Virginia Confederate monuments likely headed to black history museum 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Museum director Bill Martin has proposed returning the toppled, damaged figure of Confederate president Jefferson Davis — hauled from its perch on Monument Avenue by protesters last year — back to Valentine’s studio, where it was created. Robert E. Lee monument, other Confederate statues could go to Richmond’s Black History Museum under deal 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Protesters pulled down a statue of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis a few blocks away, and Mayor Stoney ordered the removal of about a dozen other memorials on Monument Avenue and around the city. Virginia to dismantle pedestal where Robert E. Lee statue stood in Richmond 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Protesters had earlier toppled a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Virginia to remove Robert E. Lee statue pedestal in Richmond: 'Successful conclusion' 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z His attorney appealed, arguing that Gilbert's right to a fair trial was violated because the jury deliberated in a room adorned with an antique Confederate flag and a portrait of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Police fatally shoot Florida Tech student 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z His attorney appealed, arguing that Gilbert’s right to a fair trial was violated because the jury deliberated in a room adorned with an antique Confederate flag and a portrait of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. New trial after jury met in room with Confederate symbols 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z When state lawmakers gave localities the option to choose a new namesake for Jefferson Davis Highway, some board members opted for a fallen White state trooper. Stafford County’s local government went from red to purple. Is it the next phase of N.Va.’s ‘blue wave’? 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z VCU’s governing board voted in September 2020 to rename several buildings that had honored Confederate leaders, including the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chapel. From slavery to Jim Crow to George Floyd: Virginia universities face a long racial reckoning 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Capitol, so too did a statue of a man indicted for treason but never tried: Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. If California yanks Junipero Serra’s statue from the U.S. Capitol, who should replace him? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee emerges as the sixth most popular individual recorded in their public monuments database, with other Confederate leaders, such as Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis, ranking among the top 15. L.A.'s memorial for 1871 Chinese Massacre will mark a shift in how we honor history 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Placed in the cemetery about 130 years ago by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the monument honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Alabama pushes rebel monument case after Louisiana dismissal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Alexandria, and then Virginia state legislators, pushed to rename Jefferson Davis Highway. Door by door, a push to rename Confederate streets for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z And he never missed an opportunity to meet anyone whose name could be dropped at the next social event — Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis. Review: Oscar Wilde's life was a tragic work of art. A new biography sketches it perfectly 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Invoking the name of the president of the Confederacy, a Democratic lawmaker called Statham “the Jefferson Davis of California.” Why has massive California never been split into two states? Or six? 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Protesters dragged former Confederate president Jefferson Davis off his pedestal last spring, and Stoney, Richmond’s mayor, quickly decided to get rid of three other Confederate monuments on city-owned property on Monument Avenue — Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Robert E. Lee statue is removed in Richmond, ex-capital of Confederacy, after months of protests and legal resistance 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Before Stoney’s decree, protesters toppled a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Statue of Confederate Robert E. Lee coming down in Virginia 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z At one point, for example, in the 1930s the Daughters of the Confederacy put markers on a stretch of Highway 99 honoring Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. At 24, in the Civil War, he was saving the Union. Buried in Seattle, he deserved a headstone 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z It also cleared the way to rename roads and highways honoring Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. Opinion | The great policies being adopted in blue America 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The previous logo included a picture of the famous carving of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Logo for Georgia’s Stone Mountain omits Confederate image 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z The manager of a Shell station on Jefferson Davis Highway, recently re-christened “Richmond Highway,” was for the casino. A Black-owned casino bets on a Black neighborhood in the former capital of the Confederacy 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The city of Charlotte, North Carolina, announced it will rename Jefferson Davis Street to Druid Hills Way in the first of a series of such changes set for various roads currently honoring infamous racists. Charlotte, N.C., to rename streets honoring Confederate leaders 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis finally did get his military camel — at the battle of Vicksburg, where one, named Douglas, serving with a Mississippi regiment, was shot and killed. Runaway animals are as L.A. as car chases. Here's why they make headlines 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Lee and Jefferson Davis thought the Confederate flag should be “folded up and laid away.” Opinion | Gen. Lee would approve of his statues coming down 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z The president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis was charged with treason but his prosecution was later abandoned, in part, as an effort at reconciliation following the Civil War. Notable sedition, treason cases in American history 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Stuart and President Jefferson Davis, making the street a pantheon to Confederate war heroes. Opinion | Richmond’s Lee statue, after 131 years, is an unpardonable insult 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Seventeen different names proposed to replace Jefferson Davis Street met criteria established by the Legacy Commission, a group Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles established last year to review making such changes. Charlotte, N.C., to rename streets honoring Confederate leaders 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z In February, Virginia state legislators voted to strip Jefferson Davis Highway of its Confederate president namesake, following similar efforts by Alexandria, Arlington and Prince William County in recent years. Arlington poised to rename Lee Highway after John M. Langston, a trail-blazing Black abolitionist congressman 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z That’s my new name for Jefferson Davis Highway, a.k.a., what they call Route 1 in much of the commonwealth. Perspective | On the road: Pondering America on a post-pandemic trip down I-95 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Arlington County has already recently renamed Jefferson Davis Highway, which was named for the former confederate president. Virginia county plans to rename Lee Highway for abolitionist 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z “It’s one thing to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis, but this is a national monument on the level of Gettysburg,” Burrough says. When will America finally dismantle its racist myths? Two powerful new books try 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Completed after several decades in 1972, the monument consists of a massive rock carving of three Confederate leaders on horseback: Jefferson Davis, Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Stone Mountain Park board votes to relocate Confederate flags, address KKK connection 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z A massive likeness of Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, was toppled by protesters in Richmond on June 10. Review | The campaign to erect Confederate statues — and preserve Confederate values 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederated States during the Civil War. Montana landmarks named for Confederate leader questioned 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z On March 20, the Selma chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy reported to police that the carved limestone monument shaped like a chair and honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis was gone. Strange theft of Confederate chair mystifies Alabama town 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z “Jefferson Davis doesn’t need it anymore. He’s long dead,” the email read. Lawyer: 2 arrested had no role in Confederate chair theft 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z The centerpiece of Stone Mountain Park, the state’s most popular tourist attraction, is a carving of three Confederate figures, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Stone Mountain Village to hold 1st Juneteenth celebration 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z Royal Engineering typically takes on traditional civil engineering, including work in rural Lafayette Parish and drainage work in Iberia and Jefferson Davis parishes, Tate said. Engineers help restore Louisiana island, save brown pelicans 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, because of advancing Union forces. Today in History 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z In Arlington, a Democratic stronghold across the Potomac River from Washington, a main highway stretching south from the nation’s capital was named for the Confederacy’s president, Jefferson Davis, for nearly a century until 2019. Virginia, the Old Confederacy’s Heart, Becomes a Voting Rights Bastion 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z “This bill will penalize the same a neo-Nazi racist who desecrates a statue of Martin Luther King as it would to Jefferson Davis, were we to have a Davis statue, which we don’t,” Kavanagh said. Arizona GOP wants felony for protesters who damage statues 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Protesters in Richmond, Va., toppled a Jefferson Davis statue on June 10 and vandalized other Confederate memorials. Over 160 Confederate Symbols Were Removed in 2020, Group Says 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The United Daughters of the Confederacy conceived the plan for Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway in 1913, according to the Federal Highway Administration. Lawmakers vote to remove Jefferson Davis’ name from highway 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z One, in Virginia, held a monument to Jefferson Davis; others held memorials to Confederate soldiers in Florida, North Carolina, and Alabama; another bore a statue of Robert E. Lee, in Alabama. Bust of Black hero of Lewis & Clark trip goes up in Portland 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Jefferson Davis, who served as president of the Confederate States of America before becoming a U.S. senator from Mississippi, is one of two figures representing that state in the Capitol. Southern Poverty: 160 Confederate symbols taken down in 2020 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Jefferson Davis, who served as president of the Confederate States of America before becoming a U.S. senator from Mississippi, is one of two figures representing that state in the Capitol. SPLC: 160 Confederate monuments taken down last year 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z If the presidency were excluded from the provision, former Confederate president Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy’s top military commander, Robert E. Lee, would have been barred from most offices but not the presidency, he said. EXPLAINER: After acquittal, Trump 2024? Maybe not so fast 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z “Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy, a constant reminder of a white nationalist experiment, and a racist Democrat,” Cole said. Lawmakers vote to remove Jefferson Davis’ name from highway 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Jefferson Davis, a former senator from Mississippi, who became the so-called president of the so-called Confederacy, was arrested and charged with treason in May of 1865. Donald Trump's a traitor — don't cut him the same slack we gave Jefferson Davis 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z After the lawsuits blocked Lee’s removal last year, protesters toppled a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis a few blocks up Monument Avenue. Virginia Supreme Court agrees to hear appeals in cases seeking to block removal of Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z There is a vacant spot in the Capitol Rotunda with the removal last year of the controversial statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Effort to get statue of Black journalist in US, KY Capitols 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Towering statues and obelisks that pay tribute to defeated Confederates such as President Jefferson Davis and Gens. Who owns America’s history? The answer will define what replaces fallen monuments. 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z “The surrender of the national capital to Jefferson Davis in time of war,” he asserted, “could hardly have caused a greater shock.” Opinion | How Trumpism May Endure 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z A Confederate flag waved in triumph in the halls of a building never taken by Jefferson Davis. Opinion | Trump’s evangelicals were complicit in the desecration of our democracy 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The figure of Confederate President Jefferson Davis that protesters hauled from its pedestal on Richmond’s Monument Avenue in June was a Valentine — and its copy came down from a square in New Orleans in 2017. Richmond sculptor Edward Valentine created many of the statues that defined Lost Cause mythology. Now his family’s museum is confronting the legacy. 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z It would be several years, Mr. Gray said, before he considered what it all meant, sleeping and doing homework within the nominal bounds of Jefferson Davis and the system that honored his legacy. For a Civil Rights Hero, 90, a New Battle Unfolds on His Childhood Street 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z She specifically named Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy who was in fact charged with treason, though the case was dropped, and Alexander Stephens, the Confederate vice president. Still standing: Pelosi, Democrats fail in bid to clear Confederates from Capitol 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z He was serving a life sentence for murder in Jefferson Davis County. Mississippi: 1 inmate dies in 1 prison, 2 die in another 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z In the history that Trump is summoning, he is Jefferson Davis, leader of the Confederacy's war to protect and expand the "freedom" of white people to own Black people as human property. Yes, Trump will leave office — but his seditious secession movement isn't going away 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z The final pass to collect debris in Allen and Jefferson Davis parishes and the lower portions of Cameron Parish should be complete by Dec. 23, the Department of Transportation and Development said in a statement. Hurricane debris removal along Louisiana highways continues 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Over the past two years, Alexandria, Arlington and Prince William County have all turned Jefferson Davis Highway, the roadway once honoring the president of the Confederacy, into Richmond Highway. Arlington may swap Lee Highway name for Mildred and Richard Loving Avenue 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Later, Beshear led the push to take down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky Capitol. Beshear: Fighting COVID-19 has been ‘hard emotionally’ 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z A week later, protesters pulled down the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the avenue, along with smaller monuments in other parts of town. Northam can remove Lee statue in Richmond, judge rules 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Frustrated protesters took matters into their own hands, pulling down a nearby statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, along with a handful of other monuments around the city. Trial will determine fate of Northam’s effort to remove Richmond statue of Robert E. Lee 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Once Lincoln was there, safe in the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis could negotiate an end to the Civil War. Opinion | Self-appointed armed groups aren’t legitimate militias 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “The town’s a mess,” Roberta Palermo said of Lake Arthur, La., a small community in Jefferson Davis Parish, which borders Cameron Parish, where she rode out Delta in the hotel she owns. Hurricane Delta Brings Floods and Destruction to an Already Battered Louisiana 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z This week, at least three parishes in Louisiana were under a mandatory evacuation, including Calcasieu Parish, Cameron Parish and Jefferson Davis Parish. In the Path of Six Major Storms Since June, Louisiana Braces for Delta 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z DANVILLE, Va. — The United Daughters of the Confederacy still meet across the hall from the bedroom where Jefferson Davis spent the last nights of the Civil War. Reckoning in a small town: Civil War meets civil rights in the ‘Last Capital of the Confederacy’ 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The former Davis International Baccalaureate Elementary School, near the state Capitol building, was previously named for Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Majority-Black school closer to shedding Confederate name 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Last year, the county won the right from the state to rename Jefferson Davis Highway, which honored the slave-owning president of the Confederacy. Arlington’s county symbol, an image of Confederate Gen. Lee’s mansion, may be history 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z In Richmond, protesters pulled down a grand figure of Jefferson Davis. Confederate statue taken down in Charlottesville near the site of violent 2017 rally 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z No Democrat qualified for the race, meaning Johnson was initially without opposition for another four-year term in the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, a southeast Georgia jurisdiction that includes Appling, Camden, Glynn, Jefferson Davis and Wayne counties. Independent qualifies to challenge DA in Ahmaud Arbery case 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Walter James III, 49, the former assistant principal at Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, pleaded guilty to wire fraud on Monday, news outlets reported, citing the plea agreement. Ex-Alabama school administrator pleads guilty to wire fraud 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Demonstrators began tearing down the statues, including one depicting Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Richmond is open to ideas for future of Confederate statues 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z In this sense, Mississippi's iron-barred imprisonment of Jefferson Davis presents a unique example. Jefferson Davis behind bars: Lessons from a locked-up Confederate 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis always wanted to see a Confederate battle flag raised over the White House. Opinion | Trump has made Republicans complicit in his revolt against American principles 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Stuart, while protesters pulled down the statue of the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. Across Virginia, local officials weigh taking down reminders of Confederate legacy 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Highway 60 near Gold Canyon, marking the Jefferson Davis Highway honoring the Confederate president. 2 Arizona Confederate monuments on state land relocated 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Highway 60 near Gold Canyon marking the Jefferson Davis Highway honoring the Confederate president. Arizona to remove 2 Confederate monuments from state land 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Among the statues expected to be targeted are Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens, the former president and vice president of the Confederate states who were charged with treason against the United States. House votes to remove statues from Capitol that honor Confederate leaders, racists 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Because he wants to be a 21st-century version of Jefferson Davis, Trump defended the Confederate flag and tried to suggest it was somehow equivalent to the Black Lives Matter movement. Donald Trump, Fox News grandpa: TV tells him what to do, and he does it 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Once the Civil War ended, both Lee and Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, felt the Confederate flag should be put away. Editorial Roundup: South Carolina 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z On June 10, protesters yanked down the statue of Jefferson Davis. Arthur Ashe, who stood for so much, might be the last statue standing in Richmond 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, workers used a crane to pluck a bronze female figure known as the South's Vindicatrix from the remains of a monument to Jefferson Davis, the Washington Post reported. Richmond's Confederate Soldiers and Sailors statue dismantled, latest monuments to come down 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The carving sits 190 feet wide and 90 feet tall with Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson at its forefront. Stone Mountain Park carving faces increasing calls to be removed 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z The unassuming commemorative plaque was part of a bizarre plan to celebrate Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States, as “Father of National Highways.” Commentary: A fitting end to the last Confederate monument in Southern California 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Or Jefferson Davis when protesters hauled him down last month. Gen. Robert E. Lee is the only Confederate icon still standing on a Richmond avenue forever changed 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z In June, protesters pulled down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the former capital of the Confederacy, in Richmond, Virginia. Confederate memorial owners undeterred by recent removals 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z This would include, for example, Jefferson Davis, whose statue was donated by Mississippi. House Democrats include removal of Confederate statues in funding bill 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Among the 11 statues Pelosi wants banished from the Capitol are Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens, the former president and vice president of the Confederate states who were charged with treason against the United States. Not all statues are the same: Pelosi says difference between removing Confederate leaders, past presidents 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Determined that the South should rise again, they soon hatched an idea for a corresponding Jefferson Davis National Highway that would span the Southern states. Commentary: A fitting end to the last Confederate monument in Southern California 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z In early June, Richmond protesters toppled a figure of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, though the bulk of his enormous, columned monument remains. Confederate Stonewall Jackson statue removed in Richmond; city says others will come down ‘soon’ 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The Ridgeview site features two stone markers for the former “Jefferson Davis Highway 99,” one from Vancouver and one from Blaine. Confederate memorial owners undeterred by recent removals 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z “Don’t be surprised if someone pulls down the statue of Jefferson Davis,” Biden said, referring to the president of the short-lived, pro-slavery Confederate States of America in the 19th century. Biden: Confederate monuments belong in museums, not public squares 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee are historical figures who should be in history books and their statues in museums. Opinion | We should be careful when choosing which monuments to take down 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Like the schools, the Jefferson Davis Highway thrums with an implicit tribute to white supremacy that is embedded “in the very infrastructure of the nation itself.” Commentary: A fitting end to the last Confederate monument in Southern California 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z In Virginia a number have been pulled down, including that of the former Confederate president, Jefferson Davis. When statues are no longer welcome 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The statues include one of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America; Alexander Hamilton Stephens, the vice president; and its most famous general, Robert E. Lee. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z He should quote what men such as Jefferson Davis and Robert Barnwell Rhett really said about the expanding empire they envisioned, which included annexing tropical territories to extend slavery into Cuba, Jamaica, South America. Perspective | In following Bubba Wallace, NASCAR rightly walked away from a despicable history 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Braxton Bragg’s Confederate career was nearly devoid of victory, he was hated by his men, and his officers petitioned Jefferson Davis to remove him. Opinion | Don’t delay. Rename Army bases that honor Confederate soldiers. 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced earlier this month plans to remove the other Confederate monuments along Monument Avenue, which include statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Gens. What happens to Confederate statues after they’re removed? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Recently, protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the former capital of the Confederacy. Judge to weigh arguments on fate of Richmond’s Lee statue 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Before that, they toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, and Confederate Gen. Williams Carter Wickham. Perspective | People are still fighting to keep Confederate statues standing. The question they are raising is a distraction from the one we should be asking. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z He vividly reports the delusions of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, whose hopes of continued civil war live today, fueled by the Lost Cause myth. Opinion | Dump the statues and come to terms with racism 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z As part of a daily feature called Today in History, The Associated Press supplied newspapers across the country with a quotation from Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America. The A.P. Apologizes for ‘Thought for Today’ From Jefferson Davis 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Statues of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and Confederate Gen. Williams Carter Wickham as well as a Christopher Columbus were toppled by demonstrators in recent weeks. Protesters in Richmond tear down another Confederate statue 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z In Kentucky, officials removed a statue of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy, from the state Capitol. California to remove Columbus statue from state Capitol 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z But you have probably heard a lot about Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and a host of other Confederate figures whose depictions are spread about the U.S. Debate about offensive symbols, icons on Capitol Hill sprawls far beyond the Confederates 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Removing a traitor and slave advocate: Jefferson Davis statue being removed from Kentucky state capitol. Where have statues of Confederates, and other historical figures, been removed? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney also announced plans to remove the other Confederate monuments along Monument Avenue, which include statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Gens. Trump says ‘we must build upon our heritage, not tear it down' amid Confederate statue removals 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z After leading Confederate troops against American Union troops, Bragg served as a close advisor to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Fort Bragg, a California city named for a Confederate general, considers changing its name 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Last week, demonstrators toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, that was part of a much larger monument. New lawsuit opposes plans to remove Lee statue in Virginia 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z In 2010, the school removed the name of a former Ku Klux Klan leader from a dormitory, and in 2015 it removed a statue of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Texas president to meet with students on athletes’ demands 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Having led the push to take down a statue of Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky Capitol, the state’s governor had a ceremonial role Saturday in its removal from the place it stood for generations. Where have statues of Confederates, and other historical figures, been removed? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z In Virginia, protesters took down a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. The Woman Who Took Down a Confederate Flag on What Came Next 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z In this moment, to knock over a statue of Jefferson Davis is to claim the space for black lives against those who would try to preserve the values of the Confederacy. Opinion | To Overturn Trump, We Need to Overturn White Supremacy 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z “You could actually see the back of Jefferson Davis’s head out of my room growing up,” he said. Along historic Richmond street, residents grapple with Confederate legacy 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Officials supervising the removal of a statue of Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky state capitol on Saturday found items left in its base. Kentucky Confederate statue removal reveals evidence of Jim Crow past 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z In Richmond, protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the former capital of the Confederacy. Where have statues of Confederates, and other historical figures, been removed? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The commission called for the statue to be moved to the Jefferson Davis Historic Site, where Davis was born. Governor has role in Davis statue’s removal from Capitol 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z They've responded by toppling depictions of figures like Christopher Columbus in Minnesota, removing Kentucky's Jefferson Davis, and graffitiing a Virginia memorial of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lt. Col. Allen West on desecration of Confederate monuments: 'History is not there for you to like or dislike' 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding that statues of Confederate figures such as Jefferson Davis be removed from the U.S. Taylor Swift urges for removal of 'racist historical figures' in Tennessee: 'Villains don’t deserve statues' 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the one-time capital of the Confederacy also was toppled. Houston’s oft-vandalized Columbus statue has hand lopped off 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z In 2010, the school removed the name of a former Ku Klux Klan leader from a dormitory and in 2015 removed a statue of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Texas athletes: Rename buildings, drop ‘The Eyes of Texas’ 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Is the “we” the citizens of Richmond, Va. who have grown tired of looking at a 20-foot-tall monument to the ignominious career of Jefferson Davis? Headlong into the mud 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Although opposed to secession and differing with Jefferson Davis over states’ rights and nullification, Stephens served as the Confederacy’s vice president. Nancy Pelosi is adamant: Statues honoring Confederates in the Capitol have got to go 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z In Richmond, demonstrators forcibly removed a statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the confederacy. Cancel culture goes crazy, claiming classics, cartoons and the confederacy 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z This week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi once again called for the removal from the Capitol of 11 statues of Confederate figures, including Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, the latest salvo in a yearslong battle. ‘A Slap in the Face’: Black Veterans on Bases Named for Confederates 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z “Jefferson Davis is gone this morning, but it’s going to be a lot harder to dismantle the racism he and his peers embodied and institutionalized. That’s what this city will keep working toward,” Stoney tweeted. With Virginia’s effort to remove Lee statue on hold, protesters topple Confederate figures 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z One hundred fifty-five years after the end of the Civil War, a sculpture of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, was toppled in the Virginia city that American secessionists called their capital. Confederate statues: In 2020, a renewed battle in America’s enduring Civil War 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The governor said the Davis statue, if removed, could end up at the Jefferson Davis state historic site in southern Kentucky where the Confederate leader was born. Kentucky governor seeks vote to oust Davis bust from Capitol 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, protesters tore down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis near the Lee statue. Virginia students told to expect different college life 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z On Wednesday night, protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy. Historical figures under attack after George Floyd’s death 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z In the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding that statues of Confederate figures such as Jefferson Davis be removed from the U.S. Senate panel OKs removing Confederate names from bases 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, is the latest statue to be torn down by protesters. George Floyd protests: officer bailed as protesters topple Confederate statue in Virginia - live 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z On Wednesday night a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was brought down by protesters in Richmond, Virginia. Trump to restart rallies on key slavery date 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z RICHMOND, Va. — A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was torn down along Richmond’s famed Monument Avenue on Wednesday night by protesters. The Latest: Jefferson Davis statue torn down in Richmond 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Late Wednesday, protesters toppled another iconic statue on Monument Avenue: that of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Va. attorney general tells judge he will defend governor’s push to remove statue of Robert E. Lee; Jefferson Davis statue pulled down 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. senator from Mississippi who was president of the Confederate States of America, is represented by one of two statues from that state. Senate panel OKs removing Confederate names from bases 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Gen. Braxton Bragg was unpopular with Confederate troops and known as a poor military tactician, though he was the military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. These are the Army bases named for Confederates 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The State Journal on removing a statue of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy, from the Capitol Rotunda: Editorial Roundup: Kentucky 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Kentucky’s governor said on Thursday officials are studying how to move a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the state’s Capitol building. Factbox: What changes are police, governments making in response to George Floyd protests? 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Wednesday, about a half-mile from the Lee state, protesters pulled the statue of Jefferson Davis from its pedestal. Va. attorney general tells judge he will defend governor’s push to remove statue of Robert E. Lee; Jefferson Davis statue pulled down 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z In New Orleans, efforts are underway to rename the city’s Jefferson Davis Parkway to instead honor former Xavier University president Norman C. Francis. Crews inspect, but won’t yet remove, Richmond’s Lee statue 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z The organization will be joined in a news conference Monday afternoon by the Jefferson Davis Neighborhood Civic Association. Richmond NAACP to propose change for Jefferson Davis highway 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Elsewhere on the broad avenue are statues to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, generals J.E.B. ‘A long time coming’: Iconic Lee statue to be removed 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney last week announced plans to seek the removal of the other Confederate monuments along Monument Avenue, which include statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Gens. Protesters topple Confederate statue in Virginia capital 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Elsewhere on the broad avenue lined with mansions and tony apartments are statues to Confederate president Jefferson Davis, Gens J E B Stuart and Thomas Stonewall Jackson and Confederate naval officer Matthew Maury. Confederate statue to be removed from Virginia's Monument Avenue 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Richmond's Mayor Levar Stoney, who spoke before the governor, said he plans to seek the removal of all of the other Confederate statues along Monument Avenue, which include Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Gens. Virginia governor announces removal of Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Monday, which was Jefferson Davis Day, a state holiday in Alabama honoring the president of the Confederacy. Virginia Governor Plans to Order Robert E. Lee Statue Removed 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z The protest came the evening before Monday’s state holiday in Alabama celebrating Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. Protest leads to vandalism, fires, arrests in Birmingham 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Located on the Jefferson Davis Highway, the bridge is commonly known as the Jefferson Davis Highway Bridge and plaques on each side note the Confederacy’s only president. Historic Augusta bridge to close for pedestrian conversion 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z The state marks Jefferson Davis’ birthday in February. Confederate Memorial Day marked in Alabama 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z According to the Clarion-Ledger newspaper, at least 100 homes were damaged or destroyed in a single county alone in southern Mississippi's Jefferson Davis County, located just west of Hattiesburg. Mississippi gov describes tornadoes 'the like of which we haven't seen in this state in a long, long time' 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z In Mississippi, three deaths were confirmed in Jefferson Davis County, two in Lawrence and one in Walthall. Deadly tornadoes batter southern US states 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z Like Reeves, Bryant did not publicize the proclamation and it was only discovered by reporters after a museum devoted to Confederate President Jefferson Davis published it online, according to the Jackson Free Press. Mississippi GOP governor takes break from pandemic response to declare “Confederate Heritage Month” 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Although Southerners quickly claimed it as a Confederate anthem, it was just as big a hit in the North, sung not only at Jefferson Davis’s inauguration but on the train carrying Lincoln to his. The Lower East Side in 8 Songs 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z There’s a $5,000 reward for information about whoever killed one in Jefferson Davis Parish in November, and another $6,000 for tips leading to arrest and conviction in a November 2018 killing. $11,000 in rewards for leads to whooping crane killers 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Officials said the incident happened about 5:45 p.m. in the 14400 block of Village Road near Jefferson Davis Highway in Woodbridge. Local digest: Man found fatally shot in Southeast Washington apartment 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The Depp statue is expected to stay in the Rotunda for a few weeks with statues of men including the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Kentucky Capitol get its first life-size statue of a woman 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z The treason trial of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was supposed to be the “Greatest Trial of the Age” in 1868. In 1868, the fate of Jefferson Davis’s neck swung on Andrew Johnson’s impeachment 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Several officials serving in the dry trackless regions persuaded Jefferson Davis, then the U.S. secretary of war, that what the Army needed was camels. Victorian efforts to export animals to new worlds failed, mostly 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z The commission also recommended removing one of the monuments, a tribute to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Richmond city council panel endorses funding for new statue 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z They tended to be more utilitarian than decorative — the span that takes Jefferson Davis Highway into Reagan National Airport is one of his — but every engineer probably dreams of building something beautiful. Perspective | How do you lose a bridge? It’s easy when it’s only 36 inches long. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The structure would be built on three properties recently contracted or purchased by the tribe; the fourth, along Jefferson Davis Highway, would be the location for a workforce training center. Virginia’s Pamunkey Indian tribe seeks to build $350 million Richmond casino 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z “I had never seen Jefferson Davis so as to know him. There are probably few men more antipathetic in all their views, opinions, convictions, purposes than he and I,” Greeley said later. In 1868, the fate of Jefferson Davis’s neck swung on Andrew Johnson’s impeachment 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z He faces a second complaint filed with state regulators in Louisiana, regarding a 2018 appraisal he did for syndicators in Jefferson Davis Parish. The IRS tried to crack down on rich people using an “abusive” tax deduction. It hasn’t gone so well 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Richmond served as capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War, and several statutes still standing in the city honor figures including former Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, among others. Richmond asks Virginia legislature for permission to decide fate of city’s Confederate statues 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Members recommended taking some down — especially a statue of Jefferson Davis — putting up new statues and creating context that explains the city’s complicated past. In the capital of the Confederacy, a new monument and a chance to change the narrative 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z While a Jefferson Davis County High School student, Hall never made less than an A and scored 32 out of 36 on her ACT test. How Mississippi scholarship winner navigates culture shock 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Just outside the county courthouse in Hazlehurst, where local election offices are housed, a large bust of Confederate President Jefferson Davis towers over visitors. Voting site reopened in Georgia after grassroots fight 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z These messages continued as I grew older and learned about Jefferson Davis Highway, named for the president of the Confederacy, an elementary school named for Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson and, of course, Washington-Lee. Opinion | Why Virginia’s progress on racism has been slow 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z A prominent photograph of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, as the colonel then commanding the 1st Mississippi volunteers, might strike a particularly jarring note for many local visitors. Opinion | ‘A Child’s Room’ at the NRA’s National Firearms Museum is an utterly gross display 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Former Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff Ricky Edwards said at the time that two deputies had been arrested for taking bribes to arrange sex between inmates. Documentary highlights rape allegations at Louisiana jail 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Evidence of that history abounds in a highway sign advertising the First White House of the Confederacy, and the school and thoroughfare named for Jefferson Davis, the confederacy’s only president. Montgomery, a Cradle of Civil Rights, Elects Its First Black Mayor 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z “I would say the investigation into Harper’s Ferry conducted by Jefferson Davis was fairer than the Benghazi investigation.” 'What politics is': Sidney Blumenthal on Lincoln and his own Washington life 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Route 1 as Jefferson Davis Highway with signs that say Richmond Highway. One dead, one injured in shooting in Northeast Washington 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Route 1 in the county from Jefferson Davis Highway to Richmond Highway. Jefferson Davis Highway signs coming down in Arlington 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z She went to a segregated elementary school, and her seventh-grade class was the first at Jefferson Davis Middle School to be integrated. Virginia family with declared link to the first African American reflects on 400 years of history 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z It then removed confederate statues, including one of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. City sues to remove Confederate monument, citing free speech 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z On August 6, “Jefferson Davis” was removed from the archway. Confederate monuments: Where are they now? 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z It proclaimed “Jefferson Davis Memorial Park” above the stone casemate where Davis was held prisoner by federal troops after the Civil War. Jefferson Davis’s name is gone from memorial at site where first Africans arrived 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The preservation officer at Fort Monroe says that instead, just the letters reading “Jefferson Davis Memorial Park” should be removed from the arch at the historic U.S. Virginia preservationist proposes Confederate design removal 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z It includes the names of 33 people with ties to the Confederacy, including Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. One of the last remaining Confederate monuments in California is vandalized 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Living there: Aquia Harbour is bound by Harpoon Drive to the north, Decatur Road to the east, Jefferson Davis Highway to the west and Aquia Creek to the south. Aquia Harbour offers gated privacy, boat access and a relaxed weekend vibe 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z On Thursday, a man followed a woman into a building in the 1500 block of Jefferson Davis Highway and cornered her inside an elevator, police said. Maryland man charged in Arlington sexual assault 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z Northam also urged the state transportation board to let Arlington rename Jefferson Davis Highway. ‘A rare position’: Va. Gov. Ralph Northam could wind up with great power, months after almost resigning 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Ebobisee remembers driving on a highway named after Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, as a child. Portland Timbers' Jeremy Ebobisse: 'What's going on in America now is shocking' 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z That secretary was Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy. Perspective | There are a lot of myths about D.C.’s Winder Building. The truth is impressive, too. 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Johnson served out his term a wounded president, reduced to little more than wielding his pardon power on behalf of Jefferson Davis and the remaining secession traitors. Review | A national debate over politics, principles and impeachment — in 1868 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z How delightfully ironic: Arlington County is about to remove the name of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, from Route 1 and replace it with “Richmond,” the capital of the Confederacy. Opinion | A Virginia highway is renamed, but a Confederate reminder lingers 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Almost 100 years after Confederate sympathizers named a major Virginia road after the president of their lost cause, Arlington County won approval from a state transportation board to rename Jefferson Davis Highway. Virginia agrees to let Arlington rename Jefferson Davis Highway 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The board meeting Wednesday took place at a hotel located on Jefferson Davis Highway. State panel votes to rename Jefferson Davis Highway 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The 57-year-old native of Fairfax County, Va., had practiced in Natchez, Miss., for 25 years, and his patients included his friend Jefferson Davis, the future president of the Confederacy. A brief history of the enduring phony science that perpetuates white supremacy 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z One of the original museums that has been incorporated into this new venue was attached to the White House of the Confederacy, where Jefferson Davis plotted the war with his generals. Richmond’s new Civil War museum aims to shatter conventional views of the conflict 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Saturday while she ran inside a business in the 13400 block of Jefferson Davis Highway. D.C. police investigate beating death of man found at bus stop 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Beset by numerous ownership changes and financial panics, the NP’s celebration actually trailed that of the Southern Pacific, whose route was commissioned by Jefferson Davis when the future Confederate president was U.S. secretary of war. Anniversary of transcontinental railroad recalls an era of accomplishments — and their costs 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z A similar task force in Alexandria recommended renaming Jefferson Davis Highway and keeping a Confederate memorial statue in Old Town. The District may launch a task force to review offensive school, street names 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z The designation of Jefferson Davis Highway began almost a century ago. Opinion paves way to rename ‘racist’ Jefferson Davis Highway 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z In early 1862, at the height of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis became a very paranoid man. A freed slave became a spy. Then she took down the Confederate White House. 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis Highway was named in 1922 in a response to a request by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to build a Southern transcontinental highway in Davis’s honor. Arlington can rename Jeff Davis Highway without going through legislators, AG opinion says 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z He brings up the Confederate statue in front of the old courthouse — dedicated to “the Confederacy, President Jefferson Davis and the soldiers who fought for state rights” — only to dismiss its importance. Race and the death penalty: Supreme Court to hear case of Curtis Flowers, tried six times for quadruple murder 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis signed a measure allowing black slaves to enlist in the Confederate States Army with the promise they would be set free. Today in History 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The Virginia General Assembly’s response was to name Highway 1 as the Jefferson Davis Highway, stretching from Washington, D.C., to the North Carolina line. Opinion paves way to rename ‘racist’ Jefferson Davis Highway 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z In Alexandria, Va., city officials renamed a highway that honored Confederate president Jefferson Davis and angered Irish cultural groups by declining to name a new waterfront park for an early mayor who owned slaves. Mr. Magruder gave land for a whites-only park in 1927. Should the park be renamed? 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z The street includes five towering statues of Confederate figures from Virginia, including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. Richmond exhibit seeks to reimagine Confederate statues 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Commissioners decided the obelisk and surrounding statues of Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Albert Johnston don’t contribute to the historic character of the district. Dallas gets approval to remove Confederal War Memorial 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z In good old Arlington, it would be as simple as changing the name of Jefferson Davis Highway. Opinion | The true range of opportunities for reparations 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Some people want to keep the name as Jefferson Davis Highway. Opinion paves way to rename ‘racist’ Jefferson Davis Highway 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, was Lincoln’s opposite in many ways, including in temperament. What would Lincoln do? 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z The Florida Times-Union reports that the accidental discharge occurred Thursday afternoon near Jefferson Davis Middle School. Officer’s gun fires during sweep after school threat 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z His is the only statue of an African American displayed along with those of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and others associated with the confederacy and white supremacy. A photo of a uniquely American racist act dominates the news, but my photo is an act of equality 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – An Alabama church has removed a pew honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis, saying the memorial had no place at a time when rebel symbols have been adopted by white supremacists. Alabama church removes pew honoring Confederate president 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z “We live in a post-Charlottesville time. And the vast majority of Northern Virginia no longer wants to honor the Confederacy or the racist legacy of Jefferson Davis.” Opinion paves way to rename ‘racist’ Jefferson Davis Highway 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Around the same time, the city of San Diego removed a plaque honoring Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, from Horton Plaza. A district named Dixie: Marin County schools’ name sparks controversy over racism 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, who later became the president of the Confederate States of America. Nevada panel backs new tribal name for Jeff Davis Peak 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z She was arrested in Alexandria; her husband in Jefferson Davis Parish. Woman, husband accused of trying to frame woman’s boyfriend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z And he used to attend the annual memorial ceremonies in Washington to mark the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. Why Jefferson Davis was loathed in the Confederacy he led 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Earlier, she had praised Beauvoir, the home of Jefferson Davis, as “Mississippi history at its best!” Cindy Hyde-Smith and the True Winner in Mississippi’s Senate Race 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z They also stuck by her as a photo was circulated of her wearing a replica Confederate military hat during a 2014 visit to Beauvoir, the last home of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Divisive race ends with Republican Hyde-Smith victory 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Her comments had also drawn attention to a photo of her in a Confederate uniform cap to promote tourism at Jefferson Davis’s homestead and her attendance at a segregation academy. Mississippi runoff: Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith wins racially charged election over Democrat Mike Espy 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z While a state senator, Hyde-Smith also introduced legislation to rename part of a Mississippi highway in honor of Jefferson Davis. Son and daughter of the Confederacy: Donald Trump and Cindy Hyde-Smith are a love match 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z After much conflict between the two men, Davis eventually relieved Beauregard of command and replaced him with a friendly general, James M. McPherson writes in “Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief.” Why Jefferson Davis was loathed in the Confederacy he led 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z It’s as if President Lincoln had dispatched Ulysses S. Grant to Richmond, Virginia, in 1864 as his liaison to Jefferson Davis. General John Abizaid may be Trump’s new man in Riyadh 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The senator was further criticised when photos surfaced of her posing at the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, with the caption "Mississippi history at its best". Mississippi's ugly past overshadows vote 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z In 2014, she donned a Confederate hat and posed with a rifle, writing on her Facebook page that the Jefferson Davis homestead in Biloxi is a “must see.” Cindy Hyde-Smith has embraced Confederate history more than once in her political career 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z "I enjoyed my tour of Beauvoir. The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library located in Biloxi," Hyde-Smith wrote on the social media site at the time. Photos surface of embattled Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith sporting Confederate soldier gear 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z A Republican Party that once embraced the proud tradition of Abraham Lincoln, "The Great Emancipator," is now better suited to Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy. Want proof that voting matters? Trump and his forces don’t want you to do it 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The town of Danville was a major supply hub to the Confederacy during the Civil War, and it is where Jefferson Davis spent the final days of his secessionist Presidency, in April of 1865. A Democrat’s Midterm Bid to Win in Virginia’s Fifth District, Home of Charlottesville 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z She mentions being taken as a girl to the Mississippi home of Jefferson Davis, the Confederate leader, where she was encouraged, she says, to admire a man who kept black people in chains. Stacey Abrams, a Daughter of the South, Asks Georgia to Change 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z In his hand, he holds an authorizing letter signed by Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. Locally historic ‘magic carpet’ gets new home, welcome party 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Exit the Crystal City Metro stop and walk to 2001 Jefferson Davis Highway: You're looking for NoVa's most beautiful parking lot. Where to find all those D.C. murals you’ve seen on Instagram 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Later known simply as “Dixie,” the song became an unofficial anthem of the rebel states after it was played at the inauguration of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in 1861. Away, away: Alabama high school won’t play ‘Dixie’ any more 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis Parish District Attorney Michael Cassidy tells the American Press that Parker Gary of Jennings was sentenced to 55 years in prison on two manslaughter charges. Teen gets 55 years for killing grandfather, 2nd man 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z But ignoring the misdeeds of Confederate leaders — seeing Jefferson Davis the statesman without seeing Jefferson Davis the slave owner — is not a luxury available to black people. Talking to a Man Named Mr. Cotton About Slavery and Confederate Monuments 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Take down Jefferson Davis, but leave standing statues of Gen. Robert E. Lee and three other Confederate officers. Charlottesville gave momentum to Confederate monument foes 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Take down Jefferson Davis, but leave standing statues of Gen. Robert E. Lee and three other Confederate officers. Charlottesville gave momentum to Confederate monument foes 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Last month, a commission organized by Stoney to review Richmond’s row of Confederate statues suggested that a nearby monument of Confederate President Jefferson Davis be taken down. Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond is splattered with paint 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z “However, the secretary of war at the time, which was Jefferson Davis, commuted the sentence. He was placed in prison, but he escaped and joined the Kansas militia.” He was hanged for helping slaves rebel. Now Connecticut officials are asking Virginia for a pardon 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z The State Capitol features a gold star on its steps marking where Jefferson Davis took his oath of office and a tall column celebrating Confederate soldiers. Talking to a Man Named Mr. Cotton About Slavery and Confederate Monuments 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z The giant sculpture of Jefferson Davis and Gens. Charlottesville gave momentum to Confederate monument foes 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z The giant sculpture of Jefferson Davis and Gens. Charlottesville gave momentum to Confederate monument foes 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z A Richmond commission that reviewed the city’s row of Confederate statues on Monument Avenue recommended earlier this year removing a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis but keeping others in place. Robert E. Lee statue vandalized on Richmond’s Monument Ave. 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z The Democrat all but opened her campaign by demanding that the iconic carvings of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson be sandblasted off Stone Mountain. In Georgia Governor’s Race, a Defining Moment for a Southern State 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis State Park, at the obelisk site in Fairview, is one of the nicest places to have a cookout in the area, and indeed black people visit regularly. Talking to a Man Named Mr. Cotton About Slavery and Confederate Monuments 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Richmond’s commission said the city should remove a likeness of the Confederacy’s president, Jefferson Davis—he wasn’t a Virginian and his monument, more than the others, glorifies the Southern revolt. Richmond’s monument commission says a statue of Jefferson Davis should go 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Virginia has zealously protected its right to name primary roads, and the General Assembly has shown no interest in Arlington County’s desire to rename Jefferson Davis Highway. Opinion | Richmond is gagging progressive local governments 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Lining the street are statues of Confederate leaders such as Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Opinion | Richmond’s black residents have lived with shrines to the Confederacy for too long 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z He was, as recently as 2005, a fixture at the annual memorial ceremonies in Washington held by descendants of Confederate veterans around the birthday of Jefferson Davis. Trump’s VA pick, once a defender of Confederate symbols, built his career serving polarizing figures 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z The Alexandria City Council unanimously decided Saturday to rename Jefferson Davis Highway to Richmond Highway, after three years of discussion. Man dies after car he was driving plunges into water at Columbia Island Marina 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Likewise in Jackson, Mississippi, where school officials agreed last year to adopt Mr. Obama’s name and jettison that of Confederacy president Jefferson Davis at Davis Magnet School. Obama often the beneficiary of Confederate cleansing in South 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z By many interpretations, Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were left out of the post-Civil War pardon pushes of Johnson and his successor Ulysses S. Grant. Trump’s pardon-palooza: Presidents and the constitutional power to pardon 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The school shooter is not the only reprobate associated with this site: A young army officer named Jefferson Davis was also on the scene. Opinion | Fort Dixon: Lincoln, Taylor, Davis and now a school shooting 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The effort to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway in the city of Alexandria inched forward Tuesday night, much like its namesake’s traffic at rush hour. Police identify teen fatally shot outside apartment complex in Southeast 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Even Richmond, once the capitol of the Confederacy, is debating what to do with the massive statues of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders that line Monument Avenue. ‘Lynch him!’: New lynching memorial confronts the nation’s brutal history of racial terrorism 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z So many threads weave together in Richmond - Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Davis, Patrick Henry and the rebellious slave named Gabriel. Black leader brings provocative take to Civil War museum 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z So many threads weave together in Richmond — Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Davis, Patrick Henry and the rebellious slave named Gabriel. An African American leader brings a provocative take to expanded Civil War museum 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z It was in the back alleys of historical research that he found the subject of his new novel, “Varina,” a woman 21st century America knows little or nothing about — Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis’ wife. Charles Frazier’s new novel relates the untold story of Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Americans have wrestled in recent years with whether monuments honoring Confederate leaders such as Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis are appropriate. The Pitchforks Are Out for McKinley 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z At times, they were joking - and at other times, they were tearful, angry and emotionally raw about the statues of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis and other Confederate figures. Take down Confederate statues, residents tell panel 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z A Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff’s Office statement says 33-year-old Summer Lane Chiasson was booked Thursday on a felony count of cruelty to juveniles. Louisiana woman arrested after 4-year-old shoots 2-year-old 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The high school is named for Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general, and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. In Va. community where Civil War ties run deep, schools named after Confederate figures find broad support 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis, was, of course, the president of the Confederacy, and he’s most in the news these days for statues in his image being taken down around the South. Charles Frazier’s new novel relates the untold story of Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z She bought it unaware that engraved into the metal would be the images of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general, and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, flanked by the Confederate flag. A Virginia community steeped in Civil War lore grapples with a desire for change 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Harrison is being held at the Jefferson Davis County Jail on a $1,000 bond. Man arrested after being caught on camera torturing dog 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Municipalities added to the case last week include Guayanilla in Puerto Rico, Jefferson Davis County in Mississippi and the city of New Castle, Indiana. Ohio opioid woes one reason drug lawsuits brought to state 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z The planned removal of a statehouse plaque declaring Jefferson Davis to be a hero and patriot is delayed while the Bevin administration determines if the decision was legal. A look at the top 10 Kentucky stories for 2017 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z At the second park, a statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was taken down. Memphis citizens cheer overnight removal of two Confederate statues 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Memphis removes two Confederate statues 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z At the second park, a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was later taken down. Confederate statues removed after Memphis sells public parks 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The removal of the statutes of President Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest comes three months before Memphis marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination there of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Memphis removes Confederate statues as King anniversary nears 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Jefferson Davis Park was named in 1923 after the president of the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis Park in Fort Worth to be renamed 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Next month, the City Council is expected to vote on what to rename its portion of Jefferson Davis Highway. Robert E. Lee portrait removed from city hall of his hometown: Alexandria, Virginia 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The Alexandria City Council faces another Confederacy-related decision next month, when it is expected to vote on what to rename its portion of Jefferson Davis Highway, also known as U.S. Robert E. Lee portrait is moved from hometown City Hall to a museum 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z “Tyson’s a pretty influential person,” said Shakira Hall, 17, a senior at Jefferson Davis County High. Tyson King encourages teens to ditch tobacco, e-cigs 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The removal of the statutes of President Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest comes three months before Memphis marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination there of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Memphis removes Confederate statues as King anniversary nears 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Ghostly against the gray stone, larger than half a football field, the work depicts three heroes of the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis, astride half-rendered spirit horses. Opinion | Can this Confederate monument be redeemed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Statues of Confederate leaders like Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis have been removed in New Orleans and Baltimore, with other cities exploring how to take down similar structures. A sign on scrubland marks one of America's largest slave uprisings. Is this how to remember black heroes? 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z He did, though, draw laughs by noting that he is a distant relative of the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, who is chiseled in marble a few miles away. Obama Attacks Tactics of Republican Candidate for Governor in Virginia 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z A predominately black elementary school in Jackson, Mississippi, named after Confederate President Jefferson Davis, will be renamed after former President Barack Obama, leaders announced Tuesday. Jefferson Davis school in Mississippi to be renamed after Barack Obama 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports the word “racist” was found painted in red on the Jefferson Davis statue in Richmond on Tuesday. Confederate monuments vandalized in 2 Virginia cities 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The marker and a similar piece of granite originally installed in Blaine, near the Canadian border, now are part of Jefferson Davis Park which also includes Confederate flags. Confederate monuments near Vancouver to lose historic status 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Was it not the America of Frederick Douglass that had prevailed and the Confederacy of Jefferson Davis that had been banished? We should have seen Trump coming | Ta-Nehisi Coates 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The Edwards administration said lawsuits also were filed last week by local sheriffs in Avoyelles, Lafayette, Jefferson Davis and Rapides parishes. Louisiana suing drug companies for worsening opioid crisis 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The health department says lawsuits also were filed last week by local sheriffs in Avoyelles, Lafayette, Jefferson Davis and Rapides parishes. Louisiana suing drug companies for worsening opioid crisis 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Echoing a local conservative radio host, it suggested renaming a Virginian highway—celebrating Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy—after Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish general and statesman. Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Poland’s all-American hero 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z I am disturbed about the embroidered kneeler dedicated to Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. Opinion | Considering the National Cathedral and Confederate leaders 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Consequently, the party of Abraham Lincoln is now the party of Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy. Republicans hit peak racial hypocrisy: Their condemnation of white supremacy is laughable 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Davis Magnet School is named for Jefferson Davis, who was president of the Confederacy. Mississippi school district could remove Confederate names 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z In Kentucky, group of black lawmakers, pastors and advocacy groups called anew this week for the removal of a Jefferson Davis statue in that state’s Capitol. Confederate street names: Protest turns tense in Florida 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are at least 109 public schools named after Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis or other Confederate icons in the United States. Public schools grappling with Confederate names, images 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The discussion of how or whether to deal with symbols honoring the Confederacy and its leaders, including Jefferson Davis, extends to more than monuments. Opinion | The statues are moving, and the names are changing 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The association unsuccessfully sued the university in 2015 to stop the removal of a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. University of Texas sued for removing Confederate statues 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The association also sued the university in 2015 over the removal of a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. University of Texas sued for removing Confederate statues 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The United Daughters of the Confederacy intended Jefferson Davis Highway, which begins in Arlington, to stretch through the South and beyond, all the way to the Pacific. Opinion | It’s no surprise we’re refighting the Civil War — it never really ended 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z What better new home for the Downtown statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who called the South’s loss at Shiloh “the turning point of our fate?” Tennessee editorial roundup 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The Alexandria City Council voted unanimously to begin the process of renaming Jefferson Davis Highway, and an advisory group has been convened to evaluate options. Opinion | The statues are moving, and the names are changing 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z In 2015, we saw a misguided effort to take down the Jefferson Davis monument in the Capitol in Frankfort. Kentucky editorial roundup 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Instead, they will be moved to the Briscoe Center for American History on campus, the same place where the university decided to move a statue of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis in 2015. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Dozens of memorials extol Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. America must build statues against slavery and racism. It can start with these | Sidney Blumenthal 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The university removed a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its campus in 2015 following a mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. University of Texas removes four Confederate statues - BBC News 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z I will work with the other members of the Arlington General Assembly delegation to ensure that a bill is introduced in the 2018 legislative session to allow for the renaming of Jefferson Davis Highway. Opinion | The statues are moving, and the names are changing 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Among them: an 1878 letter from Confederate President Jefferson Davis, ahead of the monument’s dedication in Macon. Historic letter, artifacts are hidden in Confederate statue 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z That school, near Richmond, is named for Lee and Jefferson Davis, who was president of the Confederacy. After Charlottesville, some rally to take Confederate name off schools 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z It contains two markers for “Jefferson Davis Highway 99,” which was part of an effort to designate a route in his name up to Canada with two markers in Washington state. Confederate monuments defaced near Vancouver, Washington 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z But as Stoney’s experience shows, it’s hard to find a middle ground in the city where President Jefferson Davis once presided over a rebel government. In the former capital of the Confederacy, the debate over the city's famed Civil War monuments is heating up 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The statues in question were in memoriam of Robert E. Lee, Matthew Fontaine Maury, J.E.B Stuart, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis — all of whom fought on the Confederate side of the Civil War. How do black conservatives feel about Confederate monuments? It’s complicated 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The event was held the day after the birthday of the late Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Confederate Memorial in Arlington: Honoring Rebels on nation’s sacred ground 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z “My whole point is that Jefferson Davis lived 81 years,” Mr. Hayes-Davis told The New York Times. Confederate Leaders’ Descendants Say Statues Can Come Down 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Beauvoir, a beachside estate on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, was Jefferson Davis’ retirement home. Jefferson Davis estate offered as new home for monuments 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Following the violence, communities across the country made new plans and accelerated existing efforts to remove statues celebrating Confederate leaders, including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. See Where Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z A plaque honoring Jefferson Davis was removed in San Diego, and a monument commemorating Confederate veterans was removed in Los Angeles. California Today: A Growing Threat on the Shoreline 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z In downtown San Diego, a plaque honoring Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was quietly removed from the park at Horton Plaza. Essential California: Confederate monuments in California come down 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The city removed a plaque naming Confederate President Jefferson Davis from a downtown plaza Wednesday. Confederate monuments removed or vandalized across the US 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Monument Avenue in Richmond features statues of, among others, Mr. Lee, Jefferson Davis, who served as president of the Confederate States, as well as Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a top general in the Confederate Army. Levar Stoney, Richmond mayor, forming commission to look at removing city’s Confederate statues 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z In San Diego, a plaque honoring Confederacy president Jefferson Davis was removed from a public park on Wednesday. See Where Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z A plaque honoring Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was quietly removed from the park at Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego Wednesday morning. Confederate plaque quickly removed from Horton Plaza 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Removing the faces of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson would be labor intensive and would require a change in state law. Georgia governor candidate wants Confederate carving gone 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The plaque honored San Diego as the Western terminus of the Jefferson Davis Highway between Virginia and California. Confederate monuments removed or vandalized across the US 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z In New Orleans, which made national news in May after workers removed memorials including those dedicated to Gen. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Gen. P.G.T. In some states, it's illegal to take down Confederate monuments or change related street names 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z There are also 109 public schools named for Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis or other icons of the Civil War-era South, the group said. Undeterred, U.S. cities ramp up removal of Confederate statues 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z It specifically honored Jefferson Davis Highway, a planned transcontinental road that was to extend from Virginia to California. Confederate plaque quickly removed from Horton Plaza 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis was a highly educated, well-read Southern gentleman. Tempers Flare Over Removal of Confederate Statues in New Orleans 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z The seven-member committee will include two black members, including the executive director of the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site. Panel to write historical context for Jefferson Davis statue 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, Confederate president Jefferson Davis and Matthew Fontaine Maury, a pioneering naval cartographer who attempted to form a slave state in Mexico after the South surrendered. Can Richmond avoid public rows over its Confederate statues? 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z There are also 109 public schools named for Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis or other icons of the Civil War-era South, the group said. Undeterred, U.S. cities ramp up removal of Confederate statues 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z They were sent last spring as New Orleans removed the monuments to Confederate President Jefferson Davis and others. Emails to lawmakers: Anger over removing Confederate statues 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z He says arrest warrants were served on suspects in Lawrence, Lincoln, Walthall, Jefferson Davis, Pike and Copiah counties, though most face charges for selling drugs in Lawrence County. Ex-Lawrence County jailer, 47 others arrested in drug case 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Beauregard and Jefferson Davis, but did so in the dead of night to try to minimize violent clashes between supporters and opponents. Richmond mayor vows to confront tributes to Southern Civil War figures 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z In 2008 the Sons of Confederate Veterans offered to finance a statue for the American Civil War Museum of Jefferson Davis holding hands with a mixed-race child who was cared for by the Davis family. A Confederate Monument Solution, With Context 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In 2005, a Virginia man was sentenced to two years for stealing dozens of Civil War-era documents, including letters by Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, from the National Archives. French historian accused of stealing American war heroes’ dog tags to sell on eBay 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Seated in the former capital of the Confederacy, the court hears appeals in the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Courthouse, a building that served as the official headquarters for Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Opinion | After a ruling on Trump’s travel ban, all eyes are on the 4th Circuit 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z New Orleans recently removed three prominent statues of Confederate figures – of President Jefferson Davis and two generals, PGT Beauregard and Robert E Lee – and a monument heralding white supremacy. Baltimore may remove Confederate monuments: mayor 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The removed statues were of Robert E. Lee, a Virginian who held people in slavery and who led the Confederate army; Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy; and P.G.T. This Memorial Day, let’s remember the holiday’s roots in the U.S. Civil War 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z What is the complication in renaming Route 1 where it is currently called Jefferson Davis Highway? Opinion | An easy fix for renaming Jefferson Davis Highway 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z I live right here, I don’t want to go by and see Jefferson Davis, someone who fought to keep my family as slaves. Stories of New Orleans: As Monuments Go Down, Family Histories Emerge 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The road is called Jefferson Davis Highway from the time it crosses the Potomac River via the 14th Street Bridge into Arlington County, through Alexandria’s redeveloped Potomac Yard neighborhood. Alexandria inches forward on name change for Jefferson Davis Highway 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Bass Road in Jefferson Davis County after neighbors reported hearing gunshots and seeing intruders with flashlights at the home around 12:45 a.m. ‘Living nightmare:’ Hunted by alleged gang killers 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z The city removed a statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis last week; a statue of Confederate Gen PGT Beauregard on Wednesday; and a monument memorializing a deadly 1874 white supremacist uprising in April. New Orleans removing its final Confederate-era statue 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Regarding the May 23 Metro article “Panel will help rename Jefferson Davis Hwy.” Opinion | An easy fix for renaming Jefferson Davis Highway 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z We got the word that Jefferson Davis was coming down so we all assembled at Jefferson Davis. Stories of New Orleans: As Monuments Go Down, Family Histories Emerge 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The renaming of Jefferson Davis Highway in Alexandria, ordered eight months ago by the City Council, inched forward last week with the appointment of an advisory group to consider new names. Alexandria inches forward on name change for Jefferson Davis Highway 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z “They were going to get me to Jefferson Davis County and try to get me on a dead-end street and take me out. That was the plan. “I started becoming a believer.” ‘Living nightmare:’ Hunted by alleged gang killers 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z The city removed a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis last week; a statue of Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Statue of General Lee coming down in New Orleans on Friday 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The city already has removed one of the Confederacy’s only president, Jefferson Davis, and a memorial to a white rebellion against a biracial Reconstruction-era government in the city. 21 arrested in Los Angeles police raids of MS-13 street gang 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Hayes-Davis is a great-great-grandson of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, whose statue was the second of four removed in New Orleans. Stories of New Orleans: As Monuments Go Down, Family Histories Emerge 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z A statue of Jefferson Davis still stands on the grounds as well, not far from where he first ruled over his new country. TRAVEL: Birmingham, Alabama, offers civil rights history, BBQ, music and blues 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z A few days later, some Jefferson Davis County employees doing ditch work found McDonald’s body. ‘Living nightmare:’ Hunted by alleged gang killers 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Early last Thursday, a statue of Jefferson Davis was taken down; last month, workers removed a monument to an 1874 insurrection in New Orleans by a white supremacist militia. New Orleans Removes Beauregard Statue, and Subdued Crowds Look On 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The City Council voted in 2015 to remove monuments honoring two of the Confederacy's best-known generals - Beauregard and Robert E. Lee - as well as Confederate President Jefferson Davis and a 19th-century white supremacist militia. New Orleans crews begin removing statue of Confederate general 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z I think the statue itself is indicative of the problem of America, in that we’re reducing history to one sentence and then we add connotations onto it: Jefferson Davis created slavery. Stories of New Orleans: As Monuments Go Down, Family Histories Emerge 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis was hoisted from his pedestal last week with Lee and Beauregard slated to follow. Analysis: Time and a killer tip scales against monuments 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z Workers wearing bulletproof vests and helmets removed the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in New Orleans before dawn Thursday as police officers encircled the monument and kept watch on protesters. Statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis removed 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The first of the four statues to come down – a monument to the Battle of Liberty Place, and last night Confederate president Jefferson Davis – were the least contentious of the four. Protests dwindle to a lone arrest as New Orleans removes Confederate statues 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The Jefferson Davis Monument was frequently vandalized according to the New Orleans Historical website that showed a photo with the words "slave owner" sprayed in red paint on the base of the monument. Crews dismantle confederate monument in New Orleans 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The Beauregard statue, a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee and one of Confederate President Jefferson Davis are slated for removal. Death sentence stands in Charleston church slayings 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z That is fair treatment for the monuments, which date from the late 19th century — statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Gens. Opinion | New Orleans needs help moving Confederate statues — and stopping extremists in the way 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z That argument was often and loudly repeated this week in New Orleans, at the foot of the Jefferson Davis statue. 'If I had my gun on me, I'd shoot him': the civil war over statues in New Orleans 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The city of New Orleans pulled Jefferson Davis from his pedestal early Thursday morning. Protests dwindle to a lone arrest as New Orleans removes Confederate statues 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Beauregard, a Confederate general; and a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. New Orleans Begins Removing Confederate Monuments, Under Police Guard 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Beauregard, a Confederate general, and one of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. New Orleans begins removing Confederate monuments — under police guard 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The city also plans to remove statues of three Confederate leaders — Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and P.G.T. New Orleans is tearing down its Confederate monuments, but the South has plenty of others 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The 4th Circuit judges and their stable of clerks assemble in Richmond about every six weeks for “court week” in the downtown courthouse that provided offices for Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the Civil War. There’s a word that no longer describes the federal appeals court in Richmond 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z But it, like Jefferson Davis, stands in the largely white Mid City neighborhood. Protests dwindle to a lone arrest as New Orleans removes Confederate statues 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Beauregard and Confederate president Jefferson Davis - that the city of New Orleans is planning to move. Louisiana editorial roundup 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Built in 1852, the former train depot was host to Confederate President Jefferson Davis when he boarded a train to Abbeville to sign the papers of surrender at the end of the Civil War. Owner seeks to bring back depot’s blues hall’s glory days 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z The Stone Mountain Confederate memorial — a vast carving of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson on horseback — is the largest and most epic memorial to the Confederacy. New Orleans is tearing down its Confederate monuments, but the South has plenty of others 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z After the case against Jefferson Davis broke down in late 1868, Johnson dropped charges against all the leaders who were still under indictment. Opinion | The longer history on treason and the Civil War 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z In September, another liberal Virginia city, Alexandria, approved a resolution to rename a road through the city named after Confederate States president Jefferson Davis. Robert E. Lee statue to be removed from Va. park after council vote: Report 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z In September, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway and ask the Virginia General Assembly for permission to move a renowned Confederate statue. A Virginia city votes to remove a Confederate statue, but doing so may prove difficult 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Yes, Robert E. Lee assumed command of Virginia’s Confederate forces there, and Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederate States. What’s in a name? For Virginia’s statehouse, the honor of a complex history 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Clay said the Capitol includes multiple pieces of art that he and his constituents find “deeply offensive” - including statues of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. Painting depicting police officers as pigs sparks tug of war on Capitol Hill 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was named after his father, who was named after his grandfather, who was named after the Confederate president Jefferson Davis, his parents once said. Jeff Sessions, a Lifelong Outsider, Finds the Inside Track 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Although that proposal may be stalled, Silberberg said Wednesday that the renaming of Jefferson Davis Highway — the name given by the state to U.S. Not so fast: Alexandria’s Confederate symbols will stay put for now 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z |
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