Dylann Roof 
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SOURCE: Vice
2-11-18
The Scholar Helping America Grapple with Its Ugly History
Historian Keisha N. Blain knows Donald Trump and Dylann Roof didn't come out of nowhere.
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6-14-16
Reflecting on the Charleston Syllabus One Year Later
by Chad Williams, Kidada Williams and Keisha N. Blain
How 3 educators tried to put the Charleston massacre into historical perspective online.
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SOURCE: The Marshall Project
5-25-16
The Anomaly of Dylann Roof
White-on-black murders rarely result in a death sentence. Roof might be an exception.
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SOURCE: Daily Beast
9-6-15
After Dylann Roof, Ken Burns's Civil War documentary seems flawed
by Christopher Dickey
As Eric Foner noted at the time it was released, it largely overlooks the cause of the Civil War: slavery.
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7-26-15
Charleston and the Amok Syndrome
by Thomas Fleming
While there is a connection to the so-called Lost Cause on the surface of Dylann Roof’s disturbed mind, it is not an explanation for the tragedy. The reason for the bloodshed is psychiatric, not racial or political.
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SOURCE: Imperial & Global Forum
7-6-15
Charleston Shooting Exposes America’s Pro-Apartheid Cold War Past
by R. Joseph Parrott
To win friends during the Cold War Rhodesia and South Africa, playing up its anti-communism, courted the white south.
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7-3-15
The Persistence of Myth in Southern Politics and Life
by Ron Briley
The notion that the Civil War and Reconstruction were foisted upon a defenseless South by a tyrannical central government retains considerable influence in a Southern ideology of persecution.
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SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
6-26-15
Bring down the Confederate flag, not memory of Civil War fallen
by Jonathan Zimmerman
In the wake of the Charleston murders, the campaign against the Confederate flag has morphed into attacks on other historical vestiges of the Confederacy itself. And anyone who cares about history should be alarmed by that.
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6-16-15
Dylann Roof Was No Lone Madman
by Randall Law
He was a terrorist and he has plenty of company.
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6-26-15
It’s Not the Old South that Died this Week. It Was the New South.
by Glenda Gilmore
Now it’s time for a new New South.
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SOURCE: The Nation
6-26-15
South Carolina’s warped public display of its white-supremacist history confronts South Carolinians, white and black, with a stark message about who rules the state.
by Eric Foner
The burgeoning movement to take down the Confederate flag in South Carolina and other states is an important first step. Even after it is gone, however, the public display of history in South Carolina will remain biased and one-dimensional.
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SOURCE: TPM
6-24-15
How The South Lost The War But Won The Narrative
by Tony Horwitz
Furling the statehouse flag may bring temporary relief to South Carolinians, but what we truly need to bury is the gauzy fiction that the antebellum South was in any way benign, or that slavery and white supremacy weren’t the cornerstone of the Confederacy.
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SOURCE: NYT
6-24-15
Homegrown Extremists Tied to Deadlier Toll Than Jihadists in U.S. Since 9/11
A count by a research center found that non-Muslim extremists have been far more lethal than Islamic militants on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001, running counter to public perception.
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6-24-15
The Long Campaign by White Supremacists to “Take Our Country Back”
by Roy E. Finkenbine
The Civil War ended one hundred and fifty years ago this month. Instead of taking our country back, isn’t it time to take it forward?
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed
6-23-15
Chad Williams Crowdsources a Syllabus on the Charleston Shootings
What prompted him? Public conversations about the shooting were generally devoid of the kind of historical knowledge that frames contemporary racial violence and its deep roots. Twitter's helping.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
6-23-15 (accessed)
Terrorism in Charleston
by Jelani Cobb
Beneath this philological fracas lay a truth evident to political speechwriters, eulogists, and news anchors: in times of tragedy, language matters.
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SOURCE: NYT
6-22-15
The Charleston shooting shows the growing globalization of white nationalism
by Morris Dees and J. Richard Cohen
Americans tend to view attacks like the mass murder in Charleston as isolated hate crimes, but many are connected to a broader movement, says the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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6-22-15
Hard Truths We Have to Face in the Wake of Charleston include the Gender and Race of the Shooter
by Karen Garner
If we can’t control ourselves, we should control our guns.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
6-21-15
S.C. Killer Dylann Roof’s Segregation Inspiration: The Council of Conservative Citizens and the Politicians Who Pander to Them
When Dylann Roof discovered the Council of Conservative Citizens and was radicalized, he was tapping into a deep history of Southern racism.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
6-21-15
Was the Co-Founder of Charleston's Emanuel Church a Victim of Racist Paranoia, Too?
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Some have speculated that Roof chose the historic black church—and even the date of his horrific deed—because it was co-founded by Denmark Vesey, a former slave who was hanged for planning to lead a slave revolt in Charleston on June 16, 1822.