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Source: Inside Higher ED

1-8-16

Historians at the AHA debate the value and place for Confederate monuments, memorials and other symbols

"White Southerners showed their power by dominating the space with martial monuments.”—Jane Censer

10-16-15

This is what the author of a book on the Rebel Yell thinks of the Confederate flag controversy

by HNN Editor

A (brief) interview with S.C. Gwynn.

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Historians at the AHA debate the value and place for Confederate monuments, memorials and other symbols

This is what the author of a book on the Rebel Yell thinks of the Confederate flag controversy

by HNN Editor