Confederate Monuments

The remains of the former monument in Pack Square will be destroyed, City Attorney Brad Branham said.

The Confederate statue in front of the Gaston County courthouse can stay, if county commissioners choose to keep it there, Superior Court Judge Robert Ervin found. But doing so would send a message. He laid out options county commissioners could use to remove or alter the statue without violating the state’s 2015 law regarding objects of remembrance.

A newly constructed historic march route will remember the base's former name and the soldiers who served there.

The city of Asheville's decision to remove a monument honoring a Civil War-era governor has been upheld by the North Carolina Court of Appeals. The downtown obelisk honoring former Gov. Zebulon Vance was dismantled in 2021 but the base has remained in place pending appeals.

The Swords Into Plowshares project, led by the Jefferson School American Heritage Center, a local Black-led nonprofit, involves the statute at the heart of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017.

The commission charged with recommending new names for bases is meeting with leaders in military towns and has presented an interim report to Congress.

Why we don’t seem to share any common ground when it comes to agreeing on the causes of the Civil War or the meaning or fate of Confederate monuments.

A 133-year-old time capsule that was placed at the pedestal of the Confederate monument in Richmond, Va. in 1887 will be replaced by a new time capsule filled with modern-day artifacts.

More than a year after Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the 12-ton statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to be removed, it was lifted from its pedestal in Richmond, Va., to be placed into storage.

The city of Charlotte has announced that Jefferson Davis Street is being renamed Druid Hills Way. The name changing process started in June.