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 ...

Though inextricably linked with the Confederacy, the flag was never its official symbol. When rebels fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, they flew a blue banner with a single white star called ...

despite critics saying the flag is based on the "Stars and Bars," the first official Confederate flag. Adopted: 1905 Designed by a Colonel in the Tennessee reserve in 1905, there is no direct evidence ...

The Missoula City Council adopted a resolution on Monday night that makes the Pride flag an official flag of the city of ...

Though the battle flag is widely thought to be the official Confederate flag, Grey and other historians say that technically is not the case. Across the nation, the battle flag has been the ...

The Gadsden flag was not the official “Flag of the Confederacy,” as the Alabama Beacon called it, but several newspapers described it in those terms. In September 1861, when the Cincinnati ...

“Like the Confederate cross of St. Andrew, the Bear Flag is a symbol whose time has come and gone.” Before the Civil War, few states had official flags. As Southern states began seceding in ...

France and the U.S. The star above the word “Arkansas” represents the state’s membership in the Confederacy. The California state flag adorns the state's official animal, the grizzly bear ...

ATLANTA - James Blitch, a 22-year-old Atlanta man, is accused of driving more than three hours to Spartanburg County, South Carolina, just to lower the Confederate flag that flies over Interstate ...

"It's not something the department is reviewing," the official said ... authored two books on the Civil War. While the Confederate battle flag's origin is a "military symbol of a slave-holding ...

A flag icon with nine stars stacked horizontally that sits atop most federal government websites has been used since 2017. It was not added after President Donald Trump’s second term began.