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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DECATUR, ALA. — With darkness settling over the battlefield and soldiers bedding down for the night, the familiar lyrics rose -- music and voices blending from Union and Confederate camps. ‘Mid ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...