The Apotheosis of Jefferson Davis. Share full article. July 16, 1865. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from July 16, 1865, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

It hasn’t been easy getting people excited about celebrating the 200th birthday of that tall, gaunt, bearded, Kentucky-bred president who was born in a log cabin and went on to lead his people ...

The treason trial of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was supposed to be the “Greatest Trial of the Age” in 1868. But that title was claimed instead by the Senate impeachment trial of ...

HAMPTON, Va. — One of the most incongruous of all of Virginia’s Confederate war memorials has come down with the removal of Jefferson Davis’s name from an archway at the site where the first ...

Yet, Davis did not cancel the inauguration due to the significance of the date — George Washington’s birthday. As I understand it, he saw parallels between Washington fighting an oppressive ...

THE APOTHEOSIS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. Share full article. June 30, 1883. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 30, 1883, Page 5 Buy Reprints.