Confederacy

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• SOURCE: AL.com
  1/12/2022
  

  Alabama's Capitol is a Crime Scene, with a 120 Year Coverup

  The Alabama Capitol in Montgomery was the first seat of the Confederate government and the place where white Democrats ratified a Jim Crow constitution in 1901. You'd learn little of this by touring the museum-like building. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/30/2021
  

  Richmond's Lee Statue, other Confederate Memorials Could go to Black History Museum

  Marland Buckner, interim executive director of the Black History Museum, said in the release that his institution “takes very seriously the responsibility to manage these objects in ways that ensure their origins and purpose are never forgotten: that is the glorification of those who led the fight to enslave African Americans and destroy the Union.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/5/2021
  

  Virginia to Dismantle Lee Statue Plinth

  Outgoing Governor Ralph Northam will execute the removal of the pedestal and the transfer of the surrounding traffic circle to the City of Richmond before Glenn Youngkin succeeds him in office. 

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• SOURCE: Orange County Register
  11/8/2021
  

  Cal State Fullerton Students Develop Public History Archive of Confederate Monuments

  The recent movement to reconsider Confederate monuments represents a kind of synthesis of public and academic histories with a moral component, which Benjamin Cawthra encourages his public history students to investigate. 

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• 10/24/2021
  

  Flying the Confederate Battle Flag in the North is a Special Sort of Disgrace

  by Daniel Koch

  Upstate New York was once the most pro-Lincoln and anti-slavery part of the Union. The growing presence of Confederate symbols there insults the region's history and contributions paid in blood for freedom. 

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• SOURCE: University of Virginia Batten School
  10/11/2021
  

  New Research: More Lynchings in Places with More Confederate Monuments

  Empirical research supports what activists have been saying for decades: Confederate memorials encourage violence in the name of white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: Charleston Post and Courier
  10/10/2021
  

  The Man Who Conned the Confederacy

  Samuel Upham's trade in counterfeit Confederate bills started to cash in on the craze for war souvenirs. It's possible that the U.S. Government helped him improve his operation to destabilize the Confederate currency. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/1/2021
  

  Army Base Names Are Changing. But to What?

  “There is a lesson here,” said Wade Fowler, who was born and raised here and now runs a small barbecue joint. “Don’t name things after people.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/4/2021
  

  Alabama Spends More than a Half Million Annually on a Confederate Memorial; Black Historical Sites Struggle

  "It is the only museum in the state that has a dedicated revenue stream codified in the state’s constitution. So while other museums struggle to keep their doors open, search for grants for funding and depend on volunteer staff, the Confederate Memorial Park is flush with cash."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/24/2021
  

  Like the Confederates, it's Dangerous to Let the January 6th Losers Rewrite History

  by Shira Lurie

  The right's effort to recast the events of January 6 as a peaceful protest is a dangerous attempt at rewriting history. The ongoing mythology of the Confederacy shows it needs to be nipped in the bud. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/25/2021
  

  How do I Tell the Story of Robert E. Lee?

  by Allen C. Guelzo

  Lee is a study in contradictions, argues his most recent biographer. Can the public today engage with them? 

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• SOURCE: Bryan-College Station Eagle
  9/22/2021
  

  Remember, Lee Betrayed His Country

  by Walter Kamphoefner

  The removal of Robert E. Lee's statue in Richmond was a necessary step in the halting American version of Germany's Vergangenheitsbewältigung – facing the evils of the nation's past. 

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• 9/19/2021
  

  Richmond's Lee Statue Has Come Down. What About Confederate Memorials in Cemeteries?

  by Jeffrey Smith

  The statue of Robert E. Lee on Richmond’s Monument Avenue finally came down, to both fanfare and controversy. But some Confederate monuments are even more politically loaded—the ones where we bury the dead.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9/13/2021
  

  Tuskegee, Alabama Confederate Memorial at Center of Lawsuit in Majority-Black City

  The presence of the statue in the city, home of the historic Tuskegee University and training place of the famed World War II aviation heroes, has angered locals for decades. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  8/10/2021
  

  Greenwood, Mississippi Asks What Comes After Confederate Monuments

  As political pressure brings down Confederate statues, the question of what replaces them becomes more urgent but remains unanswered. 

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• 8/1/2021
  

  Charlottesville's Lee Statue Belongs in a Museum

  by John Troast

  "Charlottesville’s recently removed statue of Robert E. Lee is not a statue of a man, it is a statue of a myth," and the history of that dangerous myth needs to be preserved.

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• SOURCE: Indyweek
  7/28/2021
  

  Where They Stood: A Photojournalist Documents the Nation's Fallen Confederate Monuments

  "Last fall, I began to document the Confederate monuments that have been taken down since George Floyd’s death. In April, I started a five-week, 7,300-mile road trip throughout the South to continue this work."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/28/2021
  

  Charles Blow: ‘The Lost Cause’ Is Back

  by Charles M. Blow

  "Republicans are on a political crusade to protect lore and lies. They know that many Americans, many of them their voters, will take a lie over guilt and atonement, every day of the week."

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• SOURCE: Charlotte News & Observer
  7/12/2021
  

  Far-Right Activists Protest with Confederate Flags at UNC’s Unsung Founders Memorial

  Two white supremacists picketed the University of North Carolina's memorial to the free and enslaved Black workers who built the university, the latest incident of racial tension on the campus. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/9/2021
  

  Charlottesville Removes Robert E. Lee Statue at Center of White Nationalist Rally

  “I’m really happy it’s a boring morning, and boring means that no bad things happened,” says UVA historian John Edwin Mason.