After years of frustration, some families are finally seeing progress in correcting errors on birth certificates issued by ...

Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865 when the South lost the war. Davis was charged with treason and his American citizenship wasn't restored until ...

Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster Inc.</p><p>Jefferson Finish Davis (1808-1889), president of the Confederate States of America (provisional president February 18, 1861 — February 17 ...

Jill Lepore on the links between the trial of Jefferson Davis and that of Donald Trump. Donald Trump made history as the first U.S. president to be criminally indicted. But he is not the first ex ...

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.

HAMPTON, Va. — One of the most incongruous of all of Virginia’s Confederate war memorials has come down with the removal of Jefferson Davis’s name from an archway at the site where the first ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – An "anti-racist action group" is claiming responsibility and holding for ransom a stone chair, dedicated to Jefferson Davis, stolen from a cemetery in Selma, Alabama, last month.

Legend has it that an on-the-run Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, was wrapped in woman's clothing when captured at Irwinville, Ga., by Union troops before dawn on ...

The fight for Davis’ Senate desk resumed in 1870, when Mississippi’s legislature named Hiram Rhodes Revels to a serve a one-year term as the state’s first Black senator.

The Alexandria, Virginia City Council recently voted to rename Jefferson Davis Highway, a major thoroughfare in the area named after the president of the Confederacy. As a longtime resident of ...

A June 2, 1962, story in The Republic reported that the Jefferson Davis highway marker would be dedicated the next day, moved from Duncan to “a spot on U.S. 80 about eight miles east of Apache ...