Car Hits Crowd After White Nationalist Rally in Charlottesville Ends in Violence

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and BRIAN M. ROSENTHAL August 12, 2017 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Violence erupted on Saturday as hundreds of white nationalists had gathered here for a rally and clashed with counterprotesters, resulting in at...

Ole Miss Edges Out of Its Confederate Shadow, Gingerly

By STEPHANIE SAUL August 9, 2017 OXFORD, Miss. — Other than William Faulkner and the father and son quarterbacks Archie and Eli Manning, few figures in this town’s history are better known locally than Lucius Q. C. Lamar. A professor at Ole Miss...

Interior Secretary Recommends Shrinking Borders of Bears Ears Monument

Ryan Zinke’s proposal for the Utah conservation area is being watched closely as an indicator of how the Trump administration will treat public lands.

Few in St. Louis Knew Confederate Memorial Existed. Now, Many Want It Gone.

By JULIE BOSMAN May 26, 2017 ST. LOUIS — The angry, divisive fight over public symbols of the Confederacy has swept through Columbia, S.C., Birmingham, Ala., and New Orleans. This week, the debate made its way some 600 miles north, up the Mississippi...

New Orleans Mayor’s Message on Race

By PETER APPLEBOME May 24, 2017 For nearly two years, New Orleans has been deeply divided over Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s proposal to take down four monuments to Confederate leaders and to a Reconstruction-era insurrection organized by aggrieved whites....

Stories of New Orleans: As Monuments Go Down, Family Histories Emerge

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and KATY RECKDAHL May 24, 2017 NEW ORLEANS — The debate over the removal of four Confederate-era monuments has stewed here for nearly two years, longer than the city was under Confederate control, and it has not abated...