Charlottesville 
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SOURCE: NY Times
12/2/19
How Charlottesville’s Echoes Forced New Zealand to Confront Its History
A Maori man attacked a statue to raise awareness of his ancestors’ pain. A newspaper covered the story, and a very important reader took action: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
7/5/2019
Charlottesville’s Complicated Relationship With Thomas Jefferson
Council’s vote to stop celebrating Founding Father’s birthday is latest twist
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SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
5/3/19
Judge Rules Charlottesville’s Confederate Statues Are War Monuments
But the legal fight to remove the city’s statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson may not be over.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
8-16-18
Charlottesville belies racism’s deep roots in the North
by Brian J Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis
A southern city has now become synonymous with the ongoing scourge of racism in the United States. Such a one-sided view misses how entrenched, widespread and multi-various racism is and has been across the country.
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SOURCE: CNN
8-13-18
How Confederate history looks in the shadow of Charlottesville
by Manisha Sinha
This was not the first time white supremacists had wrought havoc in the country.
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SOURCE: CBS News
8/10/18
Confederate statues stored in secret locations
"You have some people who are very upset and you know this needs to be something that's under wraps right now."
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
8-9-18
A UVa Historian Talks About Charlottesville’s White-Supremacist Rally a Year Later
Claudrena Harold discusses the difficult conversations she’s had with students and colleagues at the University of Virginia. “These events tested their faith,” she says.
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8/12/18
One Year After Charlottesville I Still Can’t Understand Why Donald Trump Equated the Protesters with Neo-Nazis
by Don C. Smith
The author’s father helped liberate prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp.
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8/12/18
What the People Who “Want Their Country Back” Forget
by Ed Simon
The reality is there is no singular “blood” in our soil, for our soil has always belonged to the blood of women and men of all lands.
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SOURCE: UChicago News
5-2-18
In new book, UChicago historian examines rise of white power movement
Assistant Professor Kathleen Belew traces birth of hate groups to Vietnam War.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
2-27-18
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.
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1/21/18
How Do We Get from the Statues We Have to the Statues We Want?
by Bruce W. Dearstyne
The New York City Monuments Commission has some ideas.
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SOURCE: Slate
11-27-17
What the New York Times’ Nazi Story Left Out
The history of America has been written by normal white racists living in normal towns.
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12-17-17
Maybe Confederate Monuments Stand for Something Different than What We Think
by David Hosansky
And that’s the folly of giving in to wild, unreasoning beliefs.
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12/24/17
There’s Yet Another Way We Can Deal with Confederate Monuments
by Philip Gerard
Wrap them in a shroud.
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SOURCE: The California Aggie
11-5-17
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.
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SOURCE: CNN
10-29-17
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.
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11-5-17
British Historian: It’s Urgent that Americans Finally Reject the Moral Equivalence of the North and South in the Civil War
by Robert Cook
It’s stopping Americans from addressing their real problems.
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SOURCE: Slate
10-6-17
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.
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10-8-17
Removing Monuments Won’t Fix Our Problems
by Amy Werbel
A lesson from the campaign against censorship in the 19th century shows why.
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