Joe Gerth’s column on Kentucky counties named for slave owners brings up profound issues. How do we progress to a fair, equitable and just future when our past is steeped in honoring those who ...

Jefferson Davis was elected as president of the Confederate States of America. Davis’ election happened a year to the day after Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. Davis was ...

Even Jim Crow Alabama couldn’t muster any enthusiasm for Jefferson Davis. When an Alabama House representative filed a bill in 1900 to make his birthday a holiday, the Birmingham Post-Herald called it ...

In several Southern states, June 3rd - the birthday of the leader of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis - is still an official holiday. A handful of states in the South have an official holiday, June 3, ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Old Jefferson Davis is heading to Hollywood. Sunday, Aug. 17 will be the last day that Richmonders can visit the Jefferson Davis statue on display at The Valentine before it heads west ...

Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, left the U.S. Senate to help lead the secessionist states in 1861. But his political skills—or lack thereof—made the new government's ...