The Mississippi legal code recognizes 10 holidays ranging from the traditional ones like Christmas, Thanksgiving and Veterans Day.

Two Confederate statues were removed from public locations in the state of Georgia this week. This comes as cities across the nation have grappled with how to handle statues of historical figures ...

When Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, he was thinking about the Civil War. And so was the woman who had lobbied for Thanksgiving for years.

On the eve of Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) over a ...

Bishop OTEY, of Tennessee, in a pastoral letter dated July 26, promulgates the following prayer, to be used on the Sunday preceding the day of thanksgiving fixed by the Confederate Congress: ...

Will Confederate faces on Georgia's Stone Mountain be removed? 02:59. ... The group marked its comeback with a cross burning atop the mountain on Thanksgiving night 1915.

The first Thanksgiving I remember, I was in the second grade. Most won’t think of the history of the meal before, during, or ... Sure, it’s a tradition. So is the Confederate flag.

A number of monuments have been removed from places around the U.S. since Memorial Day, though most removals have been of Confederate monuments, according to data released in August by the ...

Next to turkey and stuffing, no food is more linked to Thanksgiving than cranberry sauce; you’d think that buckle-shoed Pilgrims were slipping tubes of jellied Ocean Spray onto the original Plymouth ...

Mississippians who are uncomfortable with the state recognizing Confederate Memorial Day as a holiday have options.

Lexington County is 1 of 8 South Carolina counties to take the day off in observation of Confederate Memorial Day, ... such as Thanksgiving or New Year’s Day, ...