The 26th Battalion was raised at Enoggera, Queensland, in April 1915 from recruits enlisted in Queensland and Tasmania, and formed part of the 7th Brigade. It left Australia in July, and, after ...

Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape Town after going unrecognised for more than a century. The 1,772 ...

On Jan. 14, when Volusia officials were faced with a critical decision on the most galvanizing issue of our time — ultimately, their own self-interests prevailed. And future generations lost… I didn’t ...

Robert E. Lee Day was originally celebrated by states in the South for decades following the Civil War, but was abandoned by most after President Ronald Reagan designated the third Monday in ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate holidays still on the books for Florida after well over a century, despite numerous attempts to remove them. The holidays were adopted by ...

Until it was officially renamed Fort Liberty in a ceremony just off the 172,000-acre Army post’s main parade grounds on June 2, 2023, that base had carried the name of Confederate Gen.

A rumor that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended a decision to fly a Confederate flag at Facebook's Menlo Park, California, headquarters circulated online in early January 2025. We received reader ...

Wannabe crusader, accused sexual predator, and rampant misogynist Pete Hegseth is also a Confederate apologist. Trump’s pick for defense secretary called the removal of Confederate names on ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has voiced strong opposition to removing the names of Confederate generals from US military bases, repeatedly saying ...