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We can learn a lot about what to do with the Jefferson Davis Historical Site by looking at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC, the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Roots ...
Mississippi’s two senators are ready to change the state flag, but they still honor and defend Jefferson Davis, the man who served as the president of the Confederacy and whose statue stands ...
While dismantling the pedestal that once held a Jefferson Davis statue in Richmond, Virginia, workers on Wednesday discovered a box encased in stone, the city said.
On Dec. 9, about a dozen notable folks gathered on an outdoor stage to speak to the crowd gathered for the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History.
Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Miss., home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, took quite a pounding from Hurricane Katrina. But the society that runs the estate is vowing to rebuild.
One of the proudest and most notable events in the history of the Mississippi Legislature of 1884 occurred in the House of Representatives to-day on the occasion of the visit of the Hon. Jefferson ...
Mississippi celebrates the birthday of Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. What to know about the state holiday ...
A Mississippi senator is still using the one that Jefferson Davis sat at before becoming president of the Confederate States of America. The British burned the U.S. Capitol building in the War of ...
Portrait of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), Senator from Mississippi, President of the Confederate States of America and Smithsonian Regent. Davis was a friend of the first Smithsonian Secretary, Joseph ...
Mississippi observes Jefferson Davis' birthday, combined with Memorial Day, as a state holiday. This combined holiday is one of three Confederate holidays observed in Mississippi.
BILOXI, Miss. — The board of directors for Confederate President Jefferson Davis's last home has hired a company to find a new executive director for the attraction in Mississippi. Beauvoir's ...