Confederate

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  4/6/2020
  

  Mississippi Governor Declares ‘Confederate Heritage Month’ During Coronavirus Pandemic

  Reeves has long had ties to pro-Confederate organizations.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  December 1, 2019
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/14/19
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9-5-17
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8-4-17
  

  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?

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• 8-13-17
  

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

  by James Thornton Harris

  What Herbert Marcuse would make of the show.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-20-17
  

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

  Historians are worried.

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• SOURCE: Southern Poverty Law Center
  4-3-17 (accessed)
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  10-13-14
  

  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."

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• SOURCE: Edge Effects
  10-9-14
  

  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.

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• 7-6-14
  

  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.