When pictures surfaced of James Alex Fields Jr. and others carrying shields with fasces (a bundle of rods or sticks) emblazoned on them at the Charlottesville protests, historians took note. But they ...

More than 60 years ago, George Orwell observed that the word “fascism” had been so widely used as a political epithet that it had lost all meaning. That remains true today, as partisans across the ...

For generations, Americans have surrounded themselves with the symbols of ancient Greece and Rome: marble columns, laurel wreaths, Roman eagles and the fasces. These icons, carved into our government ...

these Fasces are in the U.S. Senate. The symbol dating back to early Roman Republic and before. They were symbolic of the authority of a Magistrate. The Fasces with an ax in it symbolize that the ...

The fasces continued to be a predominent political symbol well into the 20th century in America. A fasces with axe was the image on one side of the dime coin – 10 cents – from 1916 to 1946. The ...

- bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding; in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power; in modern Italy it is a symbol of fascism ...