A racist massacre at a Black South Carolina church in 2015 and George Floyd’s murder in 2020 intensified a reckoning over the role of Confederate symbols in American public life and government.

But in an international echo of a movement that has gripped the United States in recent years, Confederate symbols are now getting banned in Brazil, too. I am a geographer who analyzes the history ...

Virginia took another decisive step in its ongoing reckoning with its Confederate past as the House of Delegates in a ...