The Texas park at the center of the border battle between Texas and Washington DC is named after a confederate general who refused to surrender and instead fled to Mexico.
The names of 3 Confederate generals will be removed from elementary schools in Oklahoma City, after a school board voted 7-0 Monday night to approve the proposal.
Amidst national controversy over the Confederate Flag and the role of the Confederacy in slavery, new Texas social studies text books are actively downplaying the role of slavery in the Civil War.