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Originally published 02/28/2018
Charlottesville judge orders shrouds removed from Confederate statues

A judge in Charlottesville ruled Tuesday that local officials must take down the black shrouds covering two Confederate monuments while a lawsuit continues over the city’s plan to permanently remove the controversial statues.

Originally published 01/18/2018
How Do We Get from the Statues We Have to the Statues We Want?

Bruce W. Dearstyne

The New York City Monuments Commission has some ideas.

Originally published 11/29/2017
What the New York Times’ Nazi Story Left Out

The history of America has been written by normal white racists living in normal towns.

Originally published 11/13/2017
Maybe Confederate Monuments Stand for Something Different than What We Think

David Hosansky

And that’s the folly of giving in to wild, unreasoning beliefs.

Originally published 11/08/2017
There’s Yet Another Way We Can Deal with Confederate Monuments

Philip Gerard

Wrap them in a shroud.

Originally published 11/06/2017
UC Davis History Department holds “Ask A Historian” forum in new way to communicate with students

The forum was held to answer questions about white nationalism and Charlottesville.

Originally published 10/30/2017
Virginia church to move plaques honoring Lee and Washington

In response to violent protests over the fate of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this year, a 244-year-old Episcopal church in Alexandria is planning to move a set of plaques honoring former parishioners Robert E. Lee and George Washington.

Originally published 10/09/2017
British Historian: It’s Urgent that Americans Finally Reject the Moral Equivalence of the North and South in the Civil War

Robert Cook

It’s stopping Americans from addressing their real problems.

Originally published 10/06/2017
Congressman: Holocaust Survivor Is a Nazi Collaborator Who Organized Charlottesville Rallies

Rep. Paul Gosar is pushing conspiracy theories popularized by 9/11 Truther Alex Jones about the August white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville.

Originally published 09/28/2017
Removing Monuments Won’t Fix Our Problems

Amy Werbel

A lesson from the campaign against censorship in the 19th century shows why.

Originally published 09/27/2017
Why I Decided to Make Hatred the Subject of a Talk to the General Public

Jeff Kleiman

It’s because if you want to understand Charlottesville, it helps to understand our history of hatred.

Originally published 09/25/2017
Recalling Muhammad Ali’s Vietnam War Resistance in the Age of Trump

David Remnick

What makes modern athletes’ national-anthem protests different from Muhammad Ali’s resistance to the Vietnam War draft, and his insistence on the rights of African-Americans, a half century ago?

Originally published 09/25/2017
Jelani Cobb unloads on Trump’s double standard of patriotism in the New Yorker

Jelani Cobb

Trump’s selective patriotism "drives him to curse at black football players but leaves him struggling to create false equivalence between Nazis and anti-Fascists in Charlottesville."

Originally published 09/22/2017
Could the Governor’s Race in Virginia Turn on the Question of Confederate Monuments?

Bruce W. Dearstyne

It might. History shows why history and politics don’t mix well.

Originally published 09/22/2017
The Descent of Democracy

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Trump is indeed a threat to democracy but it is important to recognize that the threats are not new.

Originally published 09/19/2017
There are women who back the KKK and Neo-Nazis, too

Arica L. Coleman

Blaming 'Bad Dudes' Masks the Role of Women in the History of White Nationalism

Originally published 09/18/2017
California Assembly votes to support censure of Trump over comments on Charlottesville violence

The Assembly passed a resolution 41 to 5 to denounce comments by the president that seemed to equate white supremacists and neo-Nazis with the protesters demonstrating against them.

Originally published 09/14/2017
Some Americans Express Troubling Racial Attitudes Even as Majority Oppose White Supremacists

Survey conducted by Reuters/Ipsos in conjunction with UVA Center for Politics measures racial sentiments in aftermath of August neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville.

Originally published 09/14/2017
Why Did the Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville Chant “Blood and Soil”?

Yoni Anijar

The history of the phrase is frightening.

Originally published 09/13/2017
University of Virginia President Says Protesters Who Shrouded Jefferson Statue ‘Desecrated’ Campus

The protest occurred on the one-month anniversary of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.

Originally published 09/13/2017
Virginia Military Institute leaders say military college will keep Confederate statues

Other vestiges of the school’s Confederate ties — such as battle flags, the playing of “Dixie” and cadet salutes to a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson — already have been phased out.

Originally published 09/11/2017
Dartmouth lecturer Mark Bray at center of controversy after he says he supports the Antifa movement

The college rebuked him without giving him a chance to clarify that he doesn’t embrace violence except as self-defense.

Originally published 09/07/2017
Lessons from German History after Charlottesville

Jeffrey Herf

What we do – and do not – have to worry about.

Originally published 09/05/2017
The Relevance of History

Rick Shenkman

History's never been more relevant. That's something all of us need to acknowledge, even the president.

Originally published 09/05/2017
Karen L. Cox says historians need to use their power now

Karen L. Cox

"Today, humanities scholars are roundly criticized for being irrelevant. But this is simply not true as recent events have shown."

Originally published 08/31/2017
How Charlottesville Got that Robert E. Lee Statue

Bruce W. Dearstyne

It was thanks to a philanthropist who also paid for a park in honor of Booker T. Washington.

Originally published 08/31/2017
Historians' leading organization says it's ok to remove Confederate statues

To remove such monuments is neither to “change” history nor “erase” it.

Originally published 08/24/2017
Liberals Shouldn’t Let the Fight over Confederate Statues Dominate Public Debate

John L. Godwin

1. The monuments do not merely represent the Confederate cause or the racist beliefs of the people who erected them. 2. The fight over symbols distracts us from the fight for social justice.

Originally published 08/23/2017
Charlottesville and the Misuse of History

Steve Gillon

The tragic events in Charlottesville were only the latest flash point in a crisis of white identity.

Originally published 08/23/2017
Trump Defends Charlottesville Comments At Phoenix Rally

He reread a portion of his Saturday, Aug. 12, statement on the violence in Charlottesville, and mocked criticism that he didn't respond quickly enough.

Originally published 08/23/2017
Niall Ferguson chastises Trump’s comments on Cville but says the left’s open to criticism, too

"Trump blew it last week, no question. But as the worm turns against him, let us watch very carefully whom it turns to — or what it turns turn into. If Silicon Valley translates 'There is only one side' into 'Censor anything that the left brands "hate speech,” ' then the worm will become a snake."

Originally published 08/22/2017
Male Historians Have Long Dominated Public Debates. Is Charlottesville a Turning Point?

Rick Shenkman

Since the awful events in Cville, women historians have written many of the pieces published in the mainstream media.

Originally published 08/22/2017
We Need a New Museum that Tells Us How We Came to Believe What We Believe

T.J. Stiles

It would go beyond the question, "What happened?"

Originally published 08/21/2017
The whole point of Confederate monuments is to celebrate white supremacy

Karen L. Cox

Confederate statues "served to rehabilitate white men — not as the losers of a war but, as a monument in Charlotte states, preservers of 'the Anglo-Saxon civilization of the South.' ”

Originally published 08/18/2017
What It Means to Censure a President

Rick Shenkman

We've censured presidents before. No one remembers this. If you want to make history, impeach a president. Censures don’t seem to mean much.

Originally published 08/18/2017
America Was Never White

Joe Krulder

The alt-right’s rhetoric of Heritage is pure myth, a fabrication of a false past, creating memory where none existed.

Originally published 08/17/2017
Jeffersonian Democracy after Charlottesville

Matthew Crow

We should think long and hard before we let enemies of the Republic claim one of its creators as their own.

Originally published 08/17/2017
Charlottesville Violence Spurs New Resistance to Confederate Symbols

Local and state officials in states like North Carolina, Texas and Tennessee are facing the outrage of liberal and African-American constituencies, who say the statues should have never gone up in the first place.

Originally published 08/17/2017
We Found a Historian Who's Defending Trump's Comments on Charlottesville

HNN Staff

His name is Larry Schweikart, professor of history at the University of Dayton and the author of " A Patriot's History of the United States." These are some of his tweets and retweets this week.

Originally published 08/16/2017
Historians Question Trump’s Comments on Confederate Monuments

Mr. Trump’s comments drew strongly negative reactions on Twitter from many historians, who condemned his “false equivalence” between the white nationalists and the counterprotesters.

Originally published 08/16/2017
How the Nazi Flags in Charlottesville Look to a German

Soon after the end of World War II, the Germans banned swastikas and other Nazi emblems, and the German people, not to mention the police, do not tend to react well when the symbols of that era are put on display.

Originally published 08/16/2017
It’s Been 398 Years since the Arrival of Kidnapped Blacks in America – And Still We Haven’t Come to Terms with It

James Thornton Harris

What will the president say on the 400th anniversary in two years?

Originally published 08/16/2017
What Does it Mean to Carry the Swastika Flag?

Richard E. Frankel

Those who marched under the Nazi banner and those who opposed them are not equal.

Originally published 08/16/2017
There Shouldn’t Be any Statues Honoring Robert E. Lee Anywhere

Ed Simon

To remove Confederate memorials is not to white-wash history, far from it. It’s to finally remove the stain which concealed for too many Americans the reasons for why that hideous war was fought.

Originally published 08/15/2017
The Statues Debate – HNN's Full Coverage

HNN Staff

Tweets, Blog Posts, Op Eds – Everything.

Originally published 08/15/2017
N. D. B. Connolly says Charlottesville showed that liberalism can’t defeat white supremacy

N. D. B. Connolly

Only direct action can.

Originally published 08/15/2017
White Supremacy in the Age of Trump

Keri Leigh Merritt

Never forget that this country has a long history of upper-class whites using racism to their advantage.

Originally published 08/15/2017
Ibram X. Kendi asks and answers this question: What would Jefferson say about white supremacists descending upon his university?

Ibram X. Kendi

"Jefferson’s beloved city and his beloved nation are suffering at the hands of his two warring children: the older child of bigotry and the younger child of equality."

Originally published 08/15/2017
The Civil War, race and the whitewashing of history

Jonathan Zimmerman

The vast majority of Confederate memorials — including the Lee statue in Charlottesville — were erected in the early 20th century.

Originally published 08/15/2017
Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?

The New Yorker surveyed the opinions of these prominent Civil War historians: David Blight, Eric Foner, Judith Giesberg, Gregory Downs.

Originally published 08/13/2017
Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville: What Historians Are Saying on Social Media

HNN Staff

Tweets and retweets from historians on both the left and the right.

Originally published 08/13/2017
No, Mr. President. This Is Not an Issue with “Many Sides”

Ed Simon

Once again Donald Trump caters to the white racists who helped elect him.

Originally published 08/13/2017
White nationalists picked Charlottesville for a reason

Long a haven for racists – it was the last town in America to desegregate schools following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Brown v. Board of Education – Charlottesville turned liberal and this spring voted to remove a Confederate monument to Robert E. Lee.

Originally published 11/18/2013
Views, impact of Kennedy’s death differ depending on who you ask

Historians and the public often have different views on the presidency of John F. Kennedy.

Originally published 11/18/2013
UC Davis professor’s holistic look at slavery shortlisted for prestigious National Book Award

Alan Taylor already won a Pulitzer in 1996 -- now he's up for the National Book Award for "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832."

Originally published 05/21/2013
Monticello works to include slavery

Monticello is one of the region's most popular landmarks, bringing in tourists from around the country to view the mansion and garden of Thomas Jefferson.But it's also a former plantation with deep racial history that's often been overlooked on tours and in public dialogue.Monticello opened in 1923, and for the first 50 or so years there was little, if any, mention of slavery."For a long time it wasn't a topic that was talked about," said Gary Sandling, the vice president of visitor programs and services for Monticello. "There would have been talk of servants, or field hands, or a skilled workforce," he said....

Originally published 05/14/2013
Papers shed light on Thomas Jefferson

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Manuscripts and other materials that offer new perspectives on Thomas Jefferson are being donated to the foundation that owns his estate.The Thomas Jefferson Foundation was to formally accept 2,500 manuscripts, works of art and decorative objects at a reception Tuesday afternoon at the Jefferson Library at Monticello. The items donated by Sister Margherita Marchione are related to Jefferson’s longtime friend, Philip Mazzei.“The materials shed new light from different angles on Jefferson, Monticello, and the whole founding generation,” Jack Robertson, Monticello’s foundation librarian, told The Daily Progress (http://bit.ly/10UNnTC )....

Originally published 08/23/2017
I Am An Antifa

Steve Hochstadt

It was dangerous when my father and father-in-law and their whole generation went off to fight fascism on opposite sides of the globe. It was dangerous when young Americans volunteered to fight Jim Crow in the South in the 1960s. The defenders of American fascism and their fellow travelers want to make that dangerous now.

Originally published 08/16/2017
The Right Words

Mark Byrnes's Facing Backwards

Trump was failing a basic obligation of leadership. He did not pay tribute to virtue.

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