Confederate

Mississippi Governor Declares ‘Confederate Heritage Month’ During Coronavirus Pandemic

Reeves has long had ties to pro-Confederate organizations.

UNC Will Give Silent Sam to a Confederate Group — Along With a $2.5-Million Trust

by Brock Read

Student and faculty activists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finally received on Wednesday an assurance they’d long sought — an email from Kevin Guskiewicz, the interim chancellor, telling them that the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam “will never return to our campus.” Yet few of those activists were satisfied.

There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials in Germany

by Susan Neiman

Americans could learn from how drastically German society has moved away from the nadir of its history.

Historian comes out in defense of HBO’s counterfactual ‘Confederate’

by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

By holding a mirror up to society and reflecting its aspirations and shortcomings, alternative histories can advance our national dialogue about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, says Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.

Why We Really Should Be Concerned About HBO’s New Series “Confederate”

by James Thornton Harris

What Herbert Marcuse would make of the show.

The Lost Cause Rides Again

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

HBO’s "Confederate" takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?

"Game of Thrones" creators sell show to HBO that imagines a world in which the Confederacy won

Historians are worried.

How many Confederate place names are there? Now we have an idea.

Following the Charleston massacre, the Southern Poverty Law Center launched an effort to catalog and map Confederate place names and other symbols in public spaces, both in the South and across the nation. This study, while far from comprehensive, identified a total of 1,503.

Confederate Officer's Scandalous Wartime Diary Decoded

"It's a military diary and you expect military information, but you don't expect the first lady of the Confederacy to make an appearance in this diary."

Why isn’t Jefferson Davis’s plantation a Confederate shrine? (Much of it is submerged under water.)

Davis fought the Mississippi. He and his heirs lost.

What We Can Learn by Studying Women's Role in the Confederate South

by Wendy Hamand Venet

The war led to unprecedented challenges for women in Atlanta.