Tennessee teen Dixie Remp got bullied and mocked so badly for her first name — linked to the Confederacy, slavery and the ...

On the day after the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Abraham Lincoln appeared at a second-floor window of the White House. He was acceding to the wishes of citizens who had gathered to serenade ...

SANTA BARBARA D'OESTE, Brazil – It had all the trappings of a down-home country fair somewhere well below the Mason-Dixon line: Lynyrd Skynyrd medleys, mile-long lines for fried chicken, barbeque and ...

It’s told in the voice of a Southern man who survived the end of the Civil War. He was not a patrician or an officer, but a small farmer. The song is a dirge. Towards the end of the war, Gen. Stoneman ...

Look, I get it on a visceral level and somewhere deep in my Confederate-descendant bones: Mississippi was eviscerated and nearly leveled in the Civil War. Eighty percent of casualties in our state ...

Note from Opinion editor Amelia Robinson: "'Dixie' honors those who fought for Southern independence," a June 4 letter to the editor penned by Columbus resident Randall Condra, sparked much debate.

The controversial country band the Dixie Chicks has rebranded as The Chicks following criticism that the former name brought positive attention to Civil War-era Southern culture. The group changed its ...

ESPN has apologized Sunday for taking the Andrew Luck-Civil War theme too far during its Saturday broadcast of the Indianapolis Colts-Houston Texans wild card playoff game. A graphic depicting the ...

Dolly Parton‘s Dixie Stampede, a Civil War-themed attraction with locations in Tennessee and Missouri, is changing its name. For the 2018 season, the show will be known simply as Dolly Parton’s ...

I was not expecting to hear Dixie with video game graphics during the Wildcard game. I guess ESPN really is trying to cater to the red states. Yes, as Baird notes there, this is incredibly ...

ESPN was criticized for its use of the song "Dixie" during a broadcast of the Wild Card game between the Colts and Texans. The song was used as the backing track to a graphic that depicted Andrew Luck ...