Wins, a Black man leading a school whose cadets fought and died for the Confederacy, won some uphill battles, including removing a prominent statue of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. But VMI’s powerful ...

Col. M. Houston Johnson V, DoH head and professor, Maj. Madeleine Ramsey, assistant professor in the DoH, and Maj. Liz ...

There was an ”outdated” reverence for the Civil War and Confederacy. And a racial disparity existed among cadets who’d been dismissed by the student-run honor court. Sexual assault was also prevalent ...

Like The Citadel, VMI’s 1,700 students are all cadets who participate in military ... Founded decades before the opening battles of the Civil War, VMI nonetheless has deep ties to the Confederacy.