Confederate

The South’s complicated relationship with its past

All that’s left of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church is the steeple. The red brick is faded and the windows are boarded up. But don’t ask the locals if they’re ever going to tear this monument down.

Demonstrators arrive to support monument bills

Demonstrators waved Confederate flags outside the Louisiana State Capitol Thursday in protest of New Orleans’ contentious decision to replace four monuments in his city representing Confederate leaders and in support of three bills before the Legislature that aim to protect those monuments.