This story is part ofThe Confederate Reckoning, a collaborative project of USA TODAY Network newsrooms across the South to critically examine the legacy of the Confederacy and its influence on ...

But that of Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy’s president, says it is dangerous to let losers tell the tale. One thing is for sure: Trump has put us on notice he won’t go quietly.

Still, the Davis hypothetical leads to a predictable response: any reading of Section 3 that could lead to a President Jefferson Davis must be wrong. We think there are five possible responses to ...

Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden once voted to restore the U.S. citizenship of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.The former vice president, 76, was a member of the Senate ...

President Confederate States of America: 1861-1865 The son of a Revolutionary war soldier, Davis was born in Southern Kentucky but moved away as a young child and was reared in Mississippi.

Historian James McPherson talked about his book, Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief, in which he presents Confederate president Jefferson Davis as an astute military strategist ...

In Alabama, the Sons of Confederate Veterans are planning a re-enactment of the swearing in of Jefferson Davis this weekend. The group wants to commemorate the upcoming 150th anniversary of the ...

Strangest of all, the Great President -who opposed, overthrew, and would never have imprisoned Jefferson Davis - was also from Welsh stock, his progenitors, like the Confederate's, having come to ...

People gather around a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis defaced with paint after it was torn down in Richmond, Virginia, on June 10, 2020, in this screen grab from a social media video.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie praised Confederate States President Jefferson Davis effusively in a 1995 speech, calling him a “martyr to ‘The Lost Cause’” and an ...

The Jefferson Davis Memorial was removed about 2½ weeks after the monument to the Battle of Liberty Place was taken down. Like that monument, the Davis memorial was taken down in the wee hours of ...

A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is moved from its location in front of the school's main tower on the University of Texas campus, Aug. 30, 2015, in Austin, Texas.