Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
Ann Banks is author of the website "Confederates in My Closet" where she writes about race, history and her family. Her work has been published in the Smithsonian, the New York Times Magazine and Book Review, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and The Nation. First Person America, her anthology of oral histories from the Federal Writers Project was published by Knopf and Norton and she co-produced a National Public Radio series on the subject.
-
Apr 23, 2023
One Step Forward, More Steps Back on Acknowledging the Past in Louisiana
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Apr 19, 2022
Tate Reeves's Stealth Announcement of Confederate History Month
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Apr 2, 2022
The Unrightable Wrong
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Dec 14, 2021
A White Man Friendly to the Freedom of All Men
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Oct 7, 2021
The Burden of the Pile
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Aug 22, 2021
“Mild Domestic Slavery”
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Jul 5, 2021
The Book and the Spoon
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Jun 11, 2021
How to Change History
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
May 25, 2021
My Great Grandfather, Stephen Douglas, and the Seductions of Non-intervention
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
May 3, 2021
L.P. Walker: The Historic Markers, the Play, the Cemetery Walk
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Apr 19, 2021
The Bloody Handkerchief
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Apr 5, 2021
The Seductions and Confusions of Genealogical Research
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Mar 23, 2021
A White Supremacist Reformed by History
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Mar 10, 2021
John Brown and Frederick Douglass: Maybe the White Abolitionist Should Have Listened to the Black Abolitionist
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Feb 16, 2021
John Brown’s Body
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Jan 25, 2021
The Mystery of the Great Seal
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Jan 13, 2021
The Cult of the Lost Cause and the Invention of General Pickett
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Jan 12, 2021
How I got into This, part 2 - a personal note
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
-
Jan 11, 2021
How I got into This
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
News
- The Debt Ceiling Law is now a Tool of Partisan Political Power; Abolish It
- Amitai Etzioni, Theorist of Communitarianism, Dies at 94
- Kagan, Sotomayor Join SCOTUS Cons in Sticking it to Unions
- New Evidence: Rehnquist Pretty Much OK with Plessy v. Ferguson
- Ohio Unions Link Academic Freedom and the Freedom to Strike
- First Round of Obama Administration Oral Histories Focus on Political Fault Lines and Policy Tradeoffs
- The Tulsa Race Massacre was an Attack on Black People; Rebuilding Policies were an Attack on Black Wealth
- British Universities are Researching Ties to Slavery. Conservative Alumni Say "Enough"
- Martha Hodes Reconstructs Her Memory of a 1970 Hijacking
- Jeremi Suri: Texas Higher Ed Conflict "Doesn't Have to Be This Way"
Trending Now
- New transcript of Ayn Rand at West Point in 1974 shows she claimed “savage" Indians had no right to live here just because they were born here
- The Mexican War Suggests Ukraine May End Up Conceding Crimea. World War I Suggests the Price May Be Tragic if it Doesn't
- The Vietnam War Crimes You Never Heard Of