Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

Donald Trump, left, faces a court case over the question of whether he participated in an insurrection for the Jan. 6, 2021 rioting at the U.S. Capitol. Jefferson Davis, right, was president of the ...

WASHINGTON — It was in a packed courtroom in Richmond, Virginia — the former capital of the Confederacy — in December 1868 where Chief Justice Salmon Chase concluded that Jefferson Davis, the defeated ...

Why Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution and remains relevant. By Mark A. Graber The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on tourism at Beauvoir, the former home of Jefferson Davis.

Will Martin is a retired attorney; an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Law School; and the author of a Civil War novel, “Surrection.” The United States has indicted a president previously — the leader ...

Davis was born in Kentucky on June 3, 1808. However, Alabama observes it on the first Monday in June. Davis served as president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War and had a ...

Mississippi observes Jefferson Davis' birthday, combined with Memorial Day, as a state holiday. This is one of three Confederate holidays observed in Mississippi, including Robert E. Lee/MLK Day and ...