Ann Banks' Confederates in My Closet
Ann Banks is author of the website "Confederates in My Closet" where she writes about race, history and her family. Her work has been published in the Smithsonian, the New York Times Magazine and Book Review, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and The Nation. First Person America, her anthology of oral histories from the Federal Writers Project was published by Knopf and Norton and she co-produced a National Public Radio series on the subject.
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Apr 19, 2022
Tate Reeves's Stealth Announcement of Confederate History Month
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Apr 2, 2022
The Unrightable Wrong
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Dec 14, 2021
A White Man Friendly to the Freedom of All Men
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Oct 7, 2021
The Burden of the Pile
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Aug 22, 2021
“Mild Domestic Slavery”
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Jul 5, 2021
The Book and the Spoon
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Jun 11, 2021
How to Change History
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May 25, 2021
My Great Grandfather, Stephen Douglas, and the Seductions of Non-intervention
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May 3, 2021
L.P. Walker: The Historic Markers, the Play, the Cemetery Walk
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Apr 19, 2021
The Bloody Handkerchief
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Apr 5, 2021
The Seductions and Confusions of Genealogical Research
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Mar 23, 2021
A White Supremacist Reformed by History
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Mar 10, 2021
John Brown and Frederick Douglass: Maybe the White Abolitionist Should Have Listened to the Black Abolitionist
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Feb 16, 2021
John Brown’s Body
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Jan 25, 2021
The Mystery of the Great Seal
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Jan 13, 2021
The Cult of the Lost Cause and the Invention of General Pickett
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Jan 12, 2021
How I got into This, part 2 - a personal note
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Jan 11, 2021
How I got into This
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