Confederacy

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/19/19
  

  Confederate Christmas ornaments are smaller than statues – but they send the same racist message

  by Nicole Maurantonio

  Take a good look at those old Christmas ornaments before hanging them on the tree – you may find it's time to retire some family keepsakes.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/9/19
  

  A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth

  by David W. Blight, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kevin M. Levin

  The University of North Carolina agreed to pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million—a sum that rivals the endowment of its history department.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/8/19
  

  Nikki Haley gets the history of the Confederate flag very wrong

  by Adam H. Domby

  On Friday, Haley declared the Confederate flag was “hijacked” by the racism of a single white supremacist terrorist in 2015, and that before then, “people saw it as service, sacrifice and heritage.” 

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• SOURCE: Virginia Mercury
  12/6/19
  

  ‘We’re telling history now’: New Lost Cause exhibit opens at Richmond museum

  Includes a qutoe from Melvin Patrick Ely, a College of William & Mary history professor.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/20/19
  

  Confederate Statue in North Carolina Comes Down After 112 Years

  The statue’s removal came after months of “high emotions, division and even violence” in the small town of Pittsboro, a county official said.

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• 11/17/19
  

  Robert E. Lee Wasn't a Hero, He Was a Traitor

  by Michael McLean

  Lee was no hero. He was neither noble nor wise. Lee was a traitor who killed United States soldiers, fought for human enslavement, vastly increased the bloodshed of the Civil War, and made embarrassing tactical mistakes. 

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/8/19
  

  The Trouble With ‘Ole Miss’

  by Marc Parry

  The U. of Mississippi has distanced itself from much of its Confederate past. Will it ever do the same with its popular nickname?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9/22/2019
  

  There's a new way to deal with Confederate monuments: Signs that explain their racist history

  “It’s happening in all sorts of places,” said Adam Domby, a history professor at the College of Charleston who is writing a book about Confederate monuments. “Still, it’s clearly in many cases being used as a stopgap because the laws prohibit removing them.”  

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• 8/4/19
  

  Trump’s Tariff War Resembles the Confederacy’s Failed Trade Policies

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  If the present conflict over tariffs leads to diminished Chinese involvement in American affairs, the Trump administration’s risky trade fight may resemble the Confederates’ foolish gamble on the diplomatic clout of King Cotton.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/26/19
  

  A Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South

  by Jordan Brasher and Derek H. Alderman

  If the aim of statue removal is to build a more racially just South, then, as many analysts have pointed out, putting these monuments in storage is a lost opportunity. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/22/19
  

  What Should Happen to Confederate Statues? A City Auctions One for $1.4 Million

  Dallas, unable to find a suitable new home for a bronze statue of Robert E. Lee on horseback that had sat in a city park until 2017, recently sent the artifact to an online auction.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/21/19
  

  Richmond Is at a Crossroads. Will Arthur Ashe Boulevard Point the Way?

  Last Saturday, the city renamed a major thoroughfare after Ashe. It will slice across Monument Avenue, known for its outsized statues of Confederate generals.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/21/19
  

  Bowling Green State Removed Lillian Gish's Name from Their Theatre Over Her Role in Birth of a Nation. Why Do Some Want the Name Restored?

  A who's who of film -- James Earl Jones, Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese, among others -- want the name restored.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  6/24/19
  

  Don’t Want Your School to Be Named for a Confederate General? Find Someone Else Named Lee

  Schools honor others with surname to avoid costs of repainting or new signs.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/19/19
  

  She Was Born Into Slavery, Was a Spy and Is Celebrated as a Hero—But We're Missing the Point of the 'Mary Bowser' Story

  by Lois Leveen

  As a historian, I’ve grown concerned that our impulse to celebrate a black spy in the Confederate White House is impeding us from getting history right, in troubling ways.

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Origins of the Lost Cause Myth

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  States’ rights and slavery, while theoretically distinct, were in praxis intertwined. Here's what a Jeffersonian analysis of Jubal Early’s lost-cause apologia can teach us.

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• SOURCE: TPM
  6/7/19
  

  Some In Maine Fret New State Ballad Is Too Hard On The Confederacy

  They may represent a minority position, but the sentiment shows just how far the Myth of the Lost Cause, a systematic effort to rehabilitate the racist legacy of the Confederacy, has spread. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/23/19
  

  When the Names on Campus Buildings Evoke a Racist Past

  Last month, the University of Minnesota board of regents held a special meeting to discuss whether to remove the names of four former university administrators at the school’s Twin Cities campus.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  3/25/19
  

  An enormous Confederate flag is going on display in Philly this week — here’s why

  “What would it mean to the psychology of this nation if the truce flag replaced the flag associated with hate and white supremacy?”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/17/19
  

  Atlanta’s Civil War Monument, Minus the Pro-Confederate Bunkum

  A new exhibition of a gigantic painting uses historical fact to dispel Lost Cause mythology.