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Photo of a memorial for the victim of the Unite the Right rally.

Archivist Report on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017

All the articles from the University of Virginia's student newspaper covering the "Unite the Right" rally, and the grief, activism, and reforms it sparked.
by Grace Franklin via Cavalier Daily on August 11, 2022
Robert E. Lee statue

The Fight Over Virginia’s Confederate Monuments

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.
by Benjamin Wallace-Wells via The New Yorker on December 4, 2017

Racism, Medievalism, and the White Supremacists of Charlottesville

The weekend's demonstrators were the latest in a long line of American racists to ally themselves with an imagined Middle Ages.
by Josephine Livingstone via The New Republic on August 15, 2017
Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

The Battle of Charlottesville

What happened in Virginia was not the culminating battle of this conflict. It’s likely a tragic preface to more of the same.
by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on August 13, 2017
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What Would Jefferson Say About White Supremacists Descending Upon his University?

Jefferson had a complicated relationship with white supremacy.
by Ibram X. Kendi via Made By History on August 13, 2017
Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson visit the Fletcher family in Inez, Kentucky, in 1964.

Who’s to Blame for White Poverty?

Dismantling it requires getting the story right.
by Elizabeth Catte via Boston Review on September 5, 2024
Richard Slotkin.

“A Theory of America”: Mythmaking with Richard Slotkin

"I was always working on a theory of America."
by Kathleen Belew, Richard S. Slotkin via Public Books on April 19, 2024

Charlottesville’s Lee Statue Meets its End, in a 2,250-Degree Furnace

The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally, was melted down in secret and will become a new piece of public art.
by Teo Armus, Hadley Green via Washington Post on October 26, 2023
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Extremism in America: Out of the Shadows

According to experts who monitor the radical right, the white supremacist ideology that police say drove the Buffalo gunman has begun moving into the mainstream.
via Retro Report on May 12, 2022
Statue of Robert E. Lee on his horse.

Reëxamining the Legacy of Race and Robert E. Lee

The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.
by Allen C. Guelzo, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on November 24, 2021

An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry

His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.
by David A. Graham, Parker Richards, Adrienne Green, Cullen Murphy via The Atlantic on May 13, 2019

Pokémon Go, Before and After August 12

Gaming in the shadow Charlottesville's "Unite the Right" rally.
by Cassius Adair via Nursing Clio on September 5, 2018

White Nationalists Held a Race Rally in Charlottesville. The Location Was No Coincidence.

The region was at the epicenter of eugenic policy-making in the first half of the 20th century.
by Frederick Coye Heard via Scalawag on August 13, 2018
Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.
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Charlottesville Was About Memory, Not Monuments

Why our history educations must be better.
by Julian Maxwell Hayter via Made By History on August 10, 2018

Violence and Free Speech

Does our approach to the First Amendment need to change in the wake of this summer's violence in Charlottesville?
by Jennifer A. Petersen via Public Books on November 22, 2017

When Speech Meets Hate

A legal expert offers a First Amendment analysis of the summer’s violent rallies.
by Frederick Schauer via Virginia Magazine on November 21, 2017

Historic Alexandria Church Decides to Remove Plaques Honoring Washington, Lee

The memorials to the two parishioners will be relocated to a new place of “respectful prominence.”
by Lori Aratani via Washington Post on October 28, 2017

Making Sense of the Violence in Charlottesville

Was the white-nationalist march better understood as a departure from America’s traditional values, or viewed in the context of its history?
by Elizabeth Klein, James Forman Jr. via The Atlantic on September 3, 2017

An Intimate History of Antifa

"Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” by Mark Bray, is part history, part how-to.
by Daniel Penny via The New Yorker on August 22, 2017
Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

America's Deadly Divide - and Why it Has Returned

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.
by David W. Blight via The Guardian on August 20, 2017

Charlottesville: Why Jefferson Matters

Annette Gordon-Reed explores the ways in which the many paradoxes of Jefferson make him a potent figure for racists and anti-racists alike.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on August 19, 2017

Heather Heyer Is Part of a Long Tradition of White Anti-Racism Activists

Like the abolitionists of yesteryear, white Americans who oppose racial oppression deserve to be remembered and emulated.
by Manisha Sinha via Washington Post on August 19, 2017
Robert E. Lee statue

Confederate Statues Honor Timeless Virtues — Let Them Stay

Don’t let extremists on both sides destroy honor and valor, even as they seek to destroy everything else.
by Arthur Herman via National Review on August 19, 2017
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the 'alt-right' clash with counter-protesters at the Unite the Right rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, VA.
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When White Supremacists Strike, Police Don’t Always Strike Back

The long history of law enforcement's complicity in the affairs of right-wing insurgents.
by Dan Berger via Made By History on August 18, 2017

Charlottesville and the Trouble with Civil War Hypotheticals

Only by the most specific, immediate definition can we consider the Confederacy to have lost the Civil War.
by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on August 16, 2017
Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?

The recent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white-supremacist rally has stoked some Americans’ fears of a new civil war.
by Robin Wright via The New Yorker on August 14, 2017
Photograph of Benito Mussolini

Gold and Brown

Libertarianism, fascism, and democracy.
by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on February 10, 2025
Protestors and counter-protestors face off holding flags and posters.

Two Americas?

Heather Cox Richardson argues that there are two Americas: one interested in equality, the other in hierarchy. But it's not that simple.
by Nicholas Misukanis via Commonweal on August 6, 2024

Virginia School Board Votes to Restore Names of Confederate Leaders to Schools

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools.
by Daniel Arkin via NBC News on May 9, 2024
Donald Trump.

Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About Whether Trump Is a Fascist

In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.
by Andrew Marantz via The New Yorker on March 27, 2024
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