The controversies over the Confederate flag have raised, once again, debates over the reasons for the Civil War and secession. At the beginning of the War the Lincoln Administration’s primary ...

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states’ rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina’s Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview with a ...

The Dixiecrats reconvened in Birmingham, nominating South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond for the presidency. Sales of Confederate flags, long moribund, exploded. Stores could not keep them in stock.

The flag that Dylann Roof embraced, which ... “Our disgust for the dastardly wretch can scarcely be uttered,” fumed a former governor of South Carolina, the state where secession began.

The racist massacre in a South Carolina church has tipped the balance in a decades-old tug of war over the meaning of the Confederate battle flag. Its champions have argued it’s a symbol of ...

Yet this is a military unit banner, not the state flag. Then came the 1860 Secession Convention in Charleston. A committee was created to “devise a South Carolina national flag. ...

We’re starting to hear more about secession. Not the perennial post-election calls of losing parties to secede from a nation controlled by the opposition, but a growing movement for secession ...

South Carolina’s Confederate battle flag is the last on any state government grounds. With its removal, the nation would finally be saying that the flag is not a symbol worthy of respect.

The vote on submitting the ordinance to the people was taken this morning -- Ayes 45, Nays 84. JOHN PERKINS addressed the Convention on the passage of the secession ordinance.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states’ rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina’s Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview with a ...

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states' rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina's Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview with a ...

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states’ rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina’s Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview with a ...