Harvard doesn’t have a Robert E. Lee, or a John C. Calhoun. Even so, questions of Civil War remembrance and Southern heritage crop up in Cambridge every so often.

Forgotten Civil War Memorial found in Alton apartment building ...

A letter from the administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism threatens all federal funding to the school.

A letter threatening to cut off all of Harvard's federal funding is the latest escalation in an ongoing back-and-forth over ...

The creators of Yale’s Civil War Memorial were more concerned with honoring “both sides” than with the true meaning of the war.

His Memorial Day address in 1896, before Harvard’s graduating class commemorating Memorial Hall, was typical of his post-war rhetoric.

Ms. Faust is the author of “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” and a former president of Harvard University. Frederick Douglass thought Decoration Day — the ...

The practice continued until after World War I, when Memorial Day's focus shifted to honor American soldiers who died in any war, not only the Civil War, the History Channel reports.

Memorial Day started as Decoration Day in 1868. Eugene’s historic cemetery helps keep its Civil War origins alive.

Trump doubles down on Harvard ‘Foreign Student’ enemies list threat in Memorial Day post - The U.S. government already has data on the identities of foreign students because they are in the ...

The Lost Cause beneath our feet Journalistic standards of the 1910s permitted the exact reproduction of speeches without including opposing views or additional context. The News of the day took part ...