Loyal Slave narrative

A historian’s journey into the relationship between Alexander Darnes and Edmund Kirby Smith starts with a surprising eulogy.

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.

The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.

Statues don’t need to venerate military leaders of the Civil War to promulgate false narratives.

How Alex Tizon’s essay echoes a trope with deep roots in American history

In 1923, the U.S. Senate approved a new monument in D.C. "in memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South."

The “historian general” of the United Daughters of the Confederacy began the battle over the depiction of the South in history textbooks that continues today.

Would the new owner of Richland Farm let a Black woman continue to visit to pay tribute to her enslaved ancestors?

A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.

And how a handful of black Southerners helped perpetuate it after the Civil War.

This document is the rarest of items in the Library of Congress's manuscript collections: a letter written by an enslaved person.

His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.

Well off Savannah's tourist trail, there's a replica of an antebellum plantation home in the middle of a public housing project.

Two South Carolina lawmakers dust off a familiar trope in an attempt to fight back against Confederate monument removals.

According to Lost Cause mythology, Lee was a benevolent slave owner who fought for states’ rights. His slaves said otherwise.

A favorite of Old Hickory, she made him seem kinder than he was. Why?

A new book asks what we lose by simply removing monuments.

Artists captured and honored the intensity of the American Revolution, but the bravery and role of Black men in the war was not portrayed.

How a satirical song mocking uneducated Confederates came to be embraced as an anthem of white Southern pride.

Is it possible to write a good Civil War romance?