WASHINGTON — Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans said was a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to current ...

Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn about the world around them and perceive their place in it. Names can send messages and suggest what is and isn’t valued ...

In 2023, amid a national reckoning on issues of race in America, the names of seven Army bases were changed because they honored Confederate leaders. Now, those same bases are reverting back to their ...

The Pentagon is changing the name of the military base Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, reversing a decision made by a congressionally mandated commission to rename bases that honor Confederate ...

(CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023. CNN — (CNN) — ...

Earlier this month, the country's largest Army base by population got a new name - Fort Liberty. No longer is it named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg. Now that change has become a ...

Amid the Republican’s anti-DEI push, new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that one of the country’s largest military bases will get its old name back - but honor a different person. Fort ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Sept. 5 renaming the Department of Defense to the "Department of War," his latest in a series of rebrands he has led since returning to office. The ...