The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...

Georgia lawmakers previously had voted to greatly reduce the rebel cross' presence on the state flag in 2001, changing the state banner for the first time since 1956. The Confederate banner has ...

"For a lot of us, they're synonymous." The Confederate flag has had several different designs throughout its history. The first Confederate flag, called Stars and Bars, was intentionally designed ...

The confederate flag seems to be falling surprisingly easily ... the confederate general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. In Tennessee, some Democrats and the chairman of the state ...

About that time, Hollings presented a Confederate flag to President John F ... the state legislature passed and Hodges signed a proposal first offered by his GOP predecessor, David Beasley.

Civil War historians told PolitiFact the flag does not represent a Confederate flag. The first Confederate flag had a varying number of stars based on how many states seceded from the Union.

A Virginia school district is now the first in the country to restore ... many could be seen carrying the Confederate flag. Reverend Robert W. Lee IV, the great-great-great-nephew of Confederate ...

The first unofficial flag of the Confederacy ... Concerned over friendly fire due to the similarities in the Union and Confederate flags, the Confederacy's military took a rejected flag idea ...

the Confederate flag predictably makes appearances at white supremacist gatherings. But how did the battle flag, also known as the Southern Cross, come to represent the Confederacy in the first ...