Confederacy

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/21/19
  

  Blackface, KKK hoods and mock lynchings: Review of 900 yearbooks finds blatant racism

  In one of the most extensive searches of college yearbooks ever, we found blackface and Ku Klux Klan photos like Ralph Northam's far beyond Virginia.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/18/19
  

  Welcome to (possibly) the only town in America that wants a new Civil War memorial

  The proposed memorial could be the only one in the nation to include both a president and his assassin.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/13/19
  

  Union demands apology after seeing Confederate book displayed in congressman's office

  Members of a federal labor union visiting a Georgia Republican's congressional office Monday said they discovered a 19th-century book on display that they considered "racially offensive."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/13/19
  

  The ‘Loyal Slave’ Photo That Explains the Northam Scandal

  by Kevin M. Levin

  The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/7/19
  

  A Complicated Racial History Underpins Politics In Virginia

  The controversies rocking Richmond are a reminder of the complicated racial history that underpins Virginia politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/19
  

  Virginia is the birthplace of American slavery and segregation — and it still can’t escape that legacy

  Four hundred years after the first enslaved Africans were brought to the United States, the commonwealth reckons with the consequences of the system it created.

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• SOURCE: Dallas News
  2/2/19
  

  As a historian, my instinct was to preserve Confederate monuments, but I changed my mind

  by W. Marvin Dulaney

  After taking a closer look at them and the historical lies that they present and perpetuate, and the reverence that they hold upon the nation's landscape I was convinced that all of them need to come down. 

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• SOURCE: Education Week
  1/22/19
  

  In Eight States, Public Schools Are Named for Segregationists

  Schools and other public structures that memorialize leaders of the Confederacy have gained intense attention and generated fierce arguments recently.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/21/19
  

  On MLK Day, descendants of Lee, Stonewall Jackson urge Va. to halt Confederate tributes

  Descendants of two Confederate generals appeared in the Virginia Senate on Monday to show their support for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who days earlier sat out a Republican senator’s ode to Robert E. Lee.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/20/19
  

  Fate of Confederate Monuments Is Stalled by Competing Legal Battles

  Almost 154 years after the end of the Civil War, the country is still quarreling — in state capitols and courtrooms, on college campuses and around town squares — over how, or whether, to commemorate the side that lost.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/15/19
  

  Judge Overturns Alabama Law Preventing Removal of Confederate Monuments

  The 10-page ruling issued late Monday by Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo said a 2017 state law barring the removal or alteration of historical monuments wrongly violated the free speech rights of local communities.

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• 2/3/19
  

  Why Do Few People Know the History of Northern Slavery?

  by Marc Howard Ross

  How and why was the enslavement of tens of thousands of people in the region forgotten, and how and why has it recently been partially recovered? 

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• SOURCE: AP
  1/11/19
  

  Texas set to remove Confederate plaque from state Capitol

  “Why shouldn’t we be able to talk about the monuments on the Capitol grounds or anything else,” Johnson said. “I don’t think it’s a conversation we should be afraid to have, not in 2019 in America, in Texas.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/9/19
  

  Civil War expert Kevin M. Levin objected to journalist Paul Duggan's profile of a neo-Confederate. Duggan called Levin to discuss his critique.

  by Paul Duggan

  With so many fresh voices eager to be heard, Levin told Duggan, old-timers like the neo-Confederate profiled belong in the dust bin.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/7/19
  

  Confederacy Controversy: ESPN apologizes for using ‘Dixie’ in Andrew Luck graphic during Colts-Texans playoff game

  “It was a mistake to use this song. We regret having done so and we apologize,” ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  12-27-2018 (accessed)
  

  America’s Original Sin

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: Longreads
  12-27-2018 (accessed)
  

  Memory and the Lost Cause

  by Danielle A. Jackson

  An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12-7-2018
  

  How to Teach the Civil War in the Deep South

  One veteran Mississippi teacher is forgoing textbooks for the local archives.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12-7-2018
  

  VA secretary praised Confederate president as a "martyr to 'The Lost Cause'" in 1995 speech

  Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie praised Confederate States President Jefferson Davis effusively in a 1995 speech, calling him a "martyr to 'The Lost Cause'" and an "exceptional man in an exceptional age."

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• SOURCE: Atlantic
  12/3/18
  

  Silent Sam Survives

  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced its recommendation that the school build a new, $5.3 million building to house the Confederate monument.