TASS, June 11. Protesters in Richmond (Virginia) have torn down the monument erected to the only President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), local WRIC TV said ...

Other vestiges were also placed by the state nearly 100 years ago in Washington, D.C.’s Statuary Hall, displaying Confederate figures Jefferson Davis and James Z. George. The Kentucky-born Davis ...

Jefferson Davis resigned from the U.S. Senate 12 days before Mississippi seceded from the Union. He later became president of the Confederate States of America. In 1915, the English steamer ...

A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was torn down by protesters ... of the 20th century has cast a very long shadow over America in the 21st century." He continued: "What people ...

In 1862, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Confederate States of America. In 1879, Woolworth, the first chain store, opened in Utica, N.Y. In 1959, the Daytona 500 was run for ...

At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union lowered for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow. USSR had dissolved into Russia and fourteen ...