The treason trial of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was supposed to be the “Greatest Trial of the Age” in 1868. But that title was claimed instead by the Senate impeachment trial of ...

And he used to attend the annual memorial ceremonies in Washington to mark the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. This week, new details emerged about his veneration of ...

Jefferson Davis' birthday is one of three confederate holidays in Alabama. See when it is observed and what closures will ...

you likely saw Arlene Barnum standing in front of Jefferson Davis, wearing a Confederate flag T-shirt and waving a large Confederate flag. Barnum is a black woman who lives in Oklahoma ...

VA Secretary Once Gave Speeches Lionizing Racist Arch-Traitor Jefferson DavisHaving an apparent member of the neo-Confederacy heading the agency that tends to those who served the country Davis ...

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State offices will be closed in Alabama Monday to commemorate the birth of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Monday, June 5 is a state holiday, one of three in Alabama that honor Confederate ...

Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. Davis sent men into battle to preserve the right ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 29.--The real occasion for bringing Jefferson Davis out of his solitude amid the Mississippi bayous, the laying of a cornerstone to the Confederate dead, occurred to-day.

former Confederate President Jefferson Davis. "I'll bet he's spinning in his grave," Obama said when discussing how Americans should address the history of slavery in the U.S. "My mother — you ...

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In Alabama, state offices will close in observance of Jefferson Davis' birthday, which is recognized as a state holiday. However, major retailers and businesses will operate during regular hours.