The House committee investigating the January 6th Capitol breach is withdrawing its subpoena of former President Donald Trump. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has begun the removal and modification of 13 Confederate memorials and symbols on its campus. This continues the nationwide trend of taking Confederate memorials down. Gun rights group “Gun Owners…

RICHMOND, Va.—The city of Richmond—the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War—removed its last city-owned Confederate statue Monday. It took just minutes to free the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill from its base before a crane using yellow straps looped under the statue’s arms lifted it onto a bed of tires…

The United States will rename nine military bases that honor Confederate officers after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signed off on the move, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced on Oct. 6. In a press release, the DOD said the bases will be renamed by no later than January 2024. The decision comes after the Naming Commission, established by…

A large statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, will come down on Wednesday, coming months after Gov. Ralph Northam ordered its removal. The Civil War statue “will come down this week,” the Democrat governor said in a statement. “This is an important step in showing who we are and what we value…