Fort Benning officials held a ceremony to mark the change of the major Army training post from Fort Moore to Fort Benning – a ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last month ordered the change back to Fort Benning to honor Fred Benning, who was awarded the ...

Renaming a place is always an act of power. People in power have long used place naming to claim control over the identity of the place, bolster their reputations, retaliate against opponents and ...

These moves can have strong psychological effects ... Trump’s orders to restore the names Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, both originally named for Confederate generals, illustrate this effect.

This sudden rewriting of the nation’s map — done to “restore ... back the name” of Fort Bragg if reelected. To get around the federal ban, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth identified two ...

The poll also asked North Carolinians their views on the decision to restore Fort Bragg as ... to remove the name of a Confederate general. U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the ...

These moves can have strong psychological effects ... Trump’s orders to restore the names Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, both originally named for Confederate generals, illustrate this effect.

These moves can have strong psychological effects ... Trump’s orders to restore the names Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, both originally named for Confederate generals, illustrate this effect.

In our research on place naming, we explore how this “name game” is used to assert control over shared symbols and embed subtle and not-so-subtle messages in the landscape. These moves can ... s ...