Confederacy

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• SOURCE: Above the Law
  10/3/2022
  

  Judge Laurence Silberman Dies—Do His Latter Years Make the Case for Judicial Reform?

  A legal observer suggests the influential judge's reputation might have benefitted from judicial term limits, as his penchant for judicial restraint took a hard turn toward activism in decisions on gun control and public pronouncements about confederate monuments. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/5/2022
  

  Ty Seidule: Confederates Were Traitors

  The naming of military facilties for Confederates was not a project of post-Civil War reconciliation; it was about valorizing and defending segregation in the 20th century, as with 

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  8/17/2022
  

  Sarah Churchwell on the Lies of "Gone With the Wind"

  by Adam Hochshild

  Does a 500 page book on the historical distortions of the novel and film seem like beating a dead horse? What if the horse is still alive and threatening to trample people? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/25/2022
  

  The Virginia History that Conservatives are Suppressing

  by Kevin M. Levin

  Conservatives appointed by Glenn Youngkin to the state Board of Education are ignoring the important history of the Readjusters—a biracial party that governed in the tumultuous era between the end of Reconstruction and the consolidation of Jim Crow. Students need to know about them. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/3/2022
  

  Youngkin's Neoconfederate Nominee to State Historical Board Resigns

  Ann Hunter McLean resigned after facing controversy for her remarks about Confederate monuments and the causes of the Civil War. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/15/2022
  

  Youngkin's Appointee to VA Board of Historical Resources has Opinions about Robert E. Lee and Confederacy

  Ann McLean called secession legally valid and compared the Union army to the Russian forces invading Ukraine, while lamenting that Confederate monuments would no longer "tell the true story of the American South to people 500 years from now." 

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  5/23/2022
  

  Virginia's Governor Took Away the Most Important Piece of Protest Art in the Country. What Should He Have Done?

  Outgoing governor Ralph Northam removed the graffiti-covered pedestal of the former Robert E. Lee monument, which has become a site of community gathering and a public forum to express alternative visions of history. Cities should try to encourage such openness (if not spray-painting). 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  5/24/2022
  

  Congressional Commission Unveils Proposal to Rename Bases Honoring Confederates

  West Point historian Ty Seidule was vice-chair of the renaming commission, and sought community input for the proposal. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/2022
  

  Facing the Truth in the Land of Lee

  by Laura Brodie

  The controversy over removing Robert E. Lee's portrait from diplomas at Washington and Lee University points to an uncomfortable truth: Lee's historical depiction as handsome has been a visual symbol of the Lost Cause that has contributed to acceptance of the pro-Confederate mythology. 

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• SOURCE: Baptist News
  5/13/2022
  

  The Religion of the "Lost Cause" Is Back, and It May be Winning

  by Bill Leonard

  The weaponization of Southern Christianity around perceived threats to cultural integrity today adapts the playbook of the Lost Cause to the present. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/15/2022
  

  A Neighborly Civil War in Virginia over Street Names

  Leaders of a group of suburban Virginia homeowners who want to change the Confederate-related street names in their community have been accused of being puppets of George Soros and threatened. 

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• SOURCE: WLBT
  4/14/2022
  

  Former Mississippi Governor Slams Tate Reeves over Confederate Heritage Remarks

  Ray Mabus did not sign a Confederate Heritage Month declaration, a tradition which began with former Governor Kirk Fordice, whom Mabus also called "an overt white supremacist." 

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• SOURCE: Oxford American
  3/22/2022
  

  Questing for the Past

  by Katherine Churchill

  A nameplate in an 1864 edition of Gawain and the Green Knight led the author to discover the connections between a mythic medieval past and the Lost Cause ideology of Jim Crow Virginia. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  3/12/2022
  

  Erin Thompson's "Smashing Statues": Tear 'Em All Down

  How does taking down a statue relate to the more complicated work of eliminating the racist ideas and structures that put it up? 

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• SOURCE: Stars and Stripes
  3/6/2022
  

  He Grew Up With a Dog Named Dixie; Now He's Renaming Military Bases Honoring Confederates

  “People try and say ‘Oh, you’re not a patriot because you don’t love the Confederacy.’ No. I love the United States of America. And anybody that kills U.S. Army soldiers, that tries to destroy the country that I love — I can’t honor that.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/15/2022
  

  Will Monuments Honoring People of Color Replace Confederate Statues?

  by Frederick Gooding, Jr.

  "With few new exceptions, public and prominent statues of Blacks people are nonexistent."

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• SOURCE: Nashville Tennessean
  2/8/2022
  

  Confronting Confederate Heritage is Necessary to Understand White Supremacy

  by David Barber

  Everyday social life in the Confederacy required white Southerners to close their eyes and hearts to terrible cruelty. No reconciliation today is possible without acknowledging it. 

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• SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch
  2/4/2022
  

  The Fate of Richmond's Confederate Monuments Lies with a Black Organization – As it Should Be

  Columnist Michael Paul Williams writes that the decision to turn Confederate memorial statues over to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia shows the arc of the universe bending toward justice, but taking an occasional turn through irony. 

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• SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
  1/26/2022
  

  Rep. Cawthorn Lawyer's Defense against 14th Amendment Disqualification? Confederate Amnesty Act

  It is perhaps fitting that Cawthorn, who faces a challenge to his eligibility for office based on his endorsement of the march which led to the attack on the Capitol, would invoke an amnesty for Confederates as a defense. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/23/2022
  

  Confederate Groups are Keeping the Lost Cause Myth on Life Support

  by Erin L. Thompson

  "Confederate heritage" groups have used their financial resources to bring lawsuits before sympathetic judges to thwart the public's desire to remove monuments to the white supremacist pro-slavery government in public spaces.