"First Lady of the Confederacy/Varina Davis's Civil War" (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 403 pages, $18.95), by Joan E. Cashin: During the four years that North and South fought the bloodiest war in American history, there were two American republics -- with two presidents ...

Confederate President Jefferson Davis, branded a traitor in his own country, is memorialized at statehouses across the South. But not in Mississippi, where he lived out his remaining days. A bill to accept a statue of Davis from the Sons of Confederate Veterans is now the latest skirmish ...

With surgical gloves, S. Waite Rawls III pulls out a large drawer in the basement of the Museum of the Confederacy to reveal a startling display: dolls the size of children, neatly lined up like small bodies on a morgue slab. The dolls are among what the museum calls the "world's most comprehensive collection of Confederate artifacts," a trove ...

A Republican congressional candidate in a majority-white Mississippi district runs ads trying to tie his Democratic rival with Barack Obama's former pastor, seen by some as an anti-white firebrand. Democrats distribute fliers accusing the Republican of wanting a statue to honor the founder of ...