The Burt-Stark Mansion is known for its historical significance as Confederate president Jefferson Davis' last council of war ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man in a beard and a 19th century suit in a sepia-toned photo. Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mississippi honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis today. The Magnolia State isn't the only one to honor him with a state ...

Too bad Kentucky-born political leader Jefferson Davis, onetime U.S. Senator and former U.S. Secretary of War, didn’t consider a better encore for his performance as president of the Confederate ...

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 ...

Jefferson Davis VIRGINIA BEACH – Jefferson Davis finally prevailed in his decade-long battle against a myriad of health problems May 28, 2008. He “won” this fight by exhibiting to his final breath 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 ...

MICHEL MARTIN, CONTRIBUTOR: Thanks, Christiane. Jill Lepore, thanks so much for talking with us. JILL LEPORE, STAFF WRITER, “THE NEW YORKER”: Thank you for having me. MARTIN: Your recent piece for ...

In June 2020, Christina Keyser Vida shimmied up the pedestal that held Richmond’s Jefferson Davis statue to see if the bronze sculpture would fit inside The Valentine Museum. On Tuesday morning, Vida ...