Tony Horwitz

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/28/19
  

  Tony Horwitz’s Greatest Book, Confederates in the Attic, Seems Even More Crucial Today

  by Rebecca Onion

  Confederates in the Attic is a gift to teachers of American history. It’s wryly funny but sneakily profound.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/28/19
  

  Tony Horwitz, ‘Confederates in the Attic’ Author, Dead at 60

  Tony Horwitz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historical nonfiction writer best known for the bestselling chronicle of Civil War re-enactors Confederates in the Attic, has died at age 60.

• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5-31-13
  

  Tony Horwitz: The Mammy DC Almost Had

  Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who has written for The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. His books include Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War and Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War.If I say the word "Mammy," you're likely to conjure up the character from Gone With the Wind. Or, you may think of Aunt Jemima, in her trademark kerchief, beaming from boxes of pancake mix.What you probably won't picture is a massive slave woman, hewn from stone, cradling a white child atop a plinth in the nation's capital. Yet in 1923, the U.S. Senate authorized such a statue, "in memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South."As a Southern Congressman stated in support of the monument: "The traveler, as he passes by, will recall that epoch of southern civilization" when "fidelity and loyalty" prevailed. "No class of any race of people held in bondage could be found anywhere who lived more free from care or distress."