11 hours ago · A U.S. Army base originally named after a Confederate general, then renamed Fort Liberty, will revert to the name Fort Bragg. Its new namesake is WWII hero Roland Bragg — unbeknownst to his family.

21 hours ago · The army installation’s name was changed to Fort Liberty in 2023, after Congress passed a law to rename all military bases named after Confederacy officials and generals.

1 day ago · The Pentagon announced Monday it would restore Fort Liberty's original name of Fort Bragg, but would honor a different Bragg than the base's original Confederate namesake.

1 day ago · Trump promised on the campaign trail last year that he would reinstate Fort Bragg as the Army post’s name and work to return Confederate-linked names to eight other Southern bases changed in 2023.

11 hours ago · The U.S. Army base formerly known as Fort Bragg will once again bear its old name — but this time but in honor of a new namesake. The Fayetteville, N.C. base was originally named after the controversial Confederate general Braxton Bragg, and bore that title for a century.The Defense Department changed it to Fort Liberty in 2023 as part of a broader initiative to rename nearly a dozen ...

11 hours ago · A U.S. Army base originally named after a Confederate general, then renamed Fort Liberty, will revert to the name Fort Bragg. Its new namesake is WWII hero Roland Bragg — unbeknownst to his family.

Jan 16, 2025 · The effort to remove Confederate names from the military, especially the southern Army posts named for Confederate officers in the 1910s and 1940s during the south’s Jim Crow era, began amid a ...

Mar 24, 2023 · The cost of renaming the nine Army bases that honored the Confederacy has nearly doubled, an Army official told lawmakers Thursday.

Mar 24, 2023 · The Army is moving forward with renaming bases that for decades have honored Confederate rebels who waged war against the United States largely to protect and expand the slave trade.

Jan 5, 2023 · The Pentagon has directed the military to proceed with plans to rename nine Army bases and hundreds of other items whose names honor the Confederacy.