Confederacy

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/12/2020
  

  My Local Confederate Monument

  by Casey Cep

  The author examines the history and politics of the last remaining Confederate monument on public lands, other than battlefields and cemeteries, in the state of Maryland. 

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• SOURCE: Journal of the Civil War Era
  8/25/2020
  

  Civil War History: A Call to Action

  The Journal of the Civil War Era urges historians to mobilize on September 26 to correct the misinformation delivered by public monuments and memorials.   

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9/9/2020
  

  Sewanee Board Rejects ‘Veneration’ of Confederacy

  The university, founded in 1857 to provide a college entirely free of northern influence, renounced its prior veneration of the "Lost Cause" myth of the Civil War. 

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  9/1/2020
  

  Cop Who Charged Black Senator With ‘Injuring’ Confederate Statues Nurtured A Long Grudge

  The story of the effort by Portsmouth, Virginia police to prosecute a local state legislator for conspiring to "injure" Confederate monuments continues to develop. 

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• SOURCE: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
  8/27/2020
  

  Amazing Disgrace: Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on Confederate Monuments (video)

  The humorist examines the controversy over removing Confederate monuments and how we remember and teach history. 

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• 8/30/2020
  

  Gettysburg’s First Confederate Monument

  by David K. Graham

  The dedication in 1886 of a monument to the Maryland 2nd Confederate Regiment at Gettysburg launched the movement by southern partisans to lay claim to the site of the Union victory as a monument to national reconciliation. The Grand Army of the Republic organization wasn't buying it then, and we shouldn't today.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  8/26/2020
  

  House Democrat Introduces Bill To Replace Confederate Monuments Nationwide

  Rep. Bobby Rush's legislation would create a National Park Service program to speed the removal of Confederate monuments across the country.

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• SOURCE: TCU 360
  8/26/2020
  

  Race and Reconciliation Initiative Begins Study into TCU’s History

  “We want to provide critical perspective, we want to deepen understanding so that we can really take on this idea of reconciliation and healing,” said RRI chair Frederick Gooding Jr.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/21/2020
  

  Maryland’s State Song Celebrates The Confederacy. This Alternative Hails Harriet Tubman And Elijah Cummings

  “It’s the dumbest thing in the world for Maryland, of all states, to have a racist, secessionist song,” Congressman Jamie Raskin said. “We were with the Union."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/21/2020
  

  More ‘Black Lives Matter’ Signs than Confederate Flags in the New Stone Mountain, GA

  Historian Grace Elizabeth Hale reflects on a changing Georgia, where the diverse community of Stone Mountain sits just outside a park housing a prominent Confederate memorial. 

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  8/24/2020
  

  Women’s Clubs and the “Lost Cause”

  Women’s clubs were popular after the Civil War among white and Black women. But white clubwomen used their influence to ingrain racist curriculum in schools.

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• SOURCE: KWTX
  8/24/2020
  

  Fort Hood: Historians and Veterans Pushing to Rename Post after Female Army Trailblazer

  Oveta Culp Hobby, a Killeen native, led the women’s Army corps during World War II.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/18/2020
  

  Black Virginia State Senator Charged With 'Injuring' Confederate Monument

  “It’s deeply troubling that on the verge of Virginia passing long-overdue police reform, the first Black woman to serve as our Senate Pro Tempore is suddenly facing highly unusual charges,” said Gov. Ralph Northam.

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• 8/23/2020
  

  In Removing Confederate Symbols, US Military Follows German Military’s Example

  by Fred Zilian

  With unification, a fundamental break with the values of the East German Communist Party was necessary. Former East German soldiers would now belong to an army of a democracy, rooted in the concept of the “citizen in uniform."

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/18/2020
  

  Cops Who Charged Civil Rights Leaders With Felonies Try To Sideline Progressive Prosecutor

  The Portsmouth, VA Police Department has thrown the book at public officials they believe supported protests which led to the destruction of Confederate monuments. They also appear to be working to prevent a progressive Black state prosecutor from handling the case by claiming she is a witness to the events. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/13/2020
  

  Maryland County Votes to Keep Statue Honoring Confederate Soldiers

  The “Talbot Boys” memorial is thought to be the only Confederate memorial on state property in Maryland.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  7/27/2020
  

  The History of America’s Most Racist Frat Was No Secret—Except to Joe Kennedy III

  “The Birth of a Nation” was based on a Kappa Alpha member’s book. The frat—which still hails Robert E. Lee as its “spiritual founder”—praised the film for showing its Klan ties.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/17/2020
  

  Liverpool, Site of Last Surrender in US Civil War, Grapples with its Confederate Links

  "Just because we are in England … that's not an excuse to be able to commemorate individuals who were involved in keeping other people in chains," said historian Laurence Westgaph.

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• SOURCE: Southern Poverty Law Center
  8/11/2020
  

  SPLC WHOSE HERITAGE? DATASET UPDATES AS OF AUGUST 11, 2020

  The SPLC's report on Confederate memorials on public land has been updated to reflect recent removals of statues and other monuments. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/15/2020
  

  Barred From a Confederate Shrine, Protesters Scuffle in Georgia

  Tempers flared but no arrests or serious injuries resulted from confrontation between far-right and white supremacist groups and antiracist counterprotesters in Stone Mountain, Georgia on Saturday.