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.
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Apr 19, 2021
The Bloody Handkerchief
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
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Apr 5, 2021
The Seductions and Confusions of Genealogical Research
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
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Mar 23, 2021
A White Supremacist Reformed by History
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
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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
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Feb 16, 2021
John Brown’s Body
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
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Jan 25, 2021
The Mystery of the Great Seal
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
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Jan 13, 2021
The Cult of the Lost Cause and the Invention of General Pickett
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
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Jan 12, 2021
How I got into This, part 2 - a personal note
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
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Jan 11, 2021
How I got into This
by Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
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