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Why the Civil War West Mattered – and Still Does

The West cared very much about the Civil War.
by Megan Kate Nelson via HistoryNet on June 30, 2017
Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, and Mayor Hartsfield at the Cyclorama

Cyclorama: An Atlanta Monument

The history of Atlanta's first Civil War monument may reveal how to deal with them in the present.
by Daniel Judt via Southern Cultures on June 22, 2017

The True History of the South Is Not Being Erased

Taking down Confederate monuments helps confront the past, not obscure it.
by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on June 11, 2017

Here's the Real History Behind Arizona's Confederate Monuments

It has less to do with the state's role in the Civil War, and more to do with backlash to the Civil Rights movement.
by Antonia Noori Farzan via Phoenix New Times on June 7, 2017
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Civil War Memory

Historical understandings and myths about the Civil War's causes, meanings, and legacies still shape American culture and national discourse about the country's future.

Confederate or Not, Which Monuments Should Stay or Go? We Asked, You Answered.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.
via Washington Post on June 6, 2017

After the Civil War, Robert E. Lee Led the Charge for Reconciliation

Lee should not be defined not only by his time as a Confederate general, but also by his actions after the war was over.
by R. David Cox via Richmond Times-Dispatch on May 27, 2017

Bryan Stevenson Explains How It Feels To Grow Up Black Amid Confederate Monuments

"I think we have to increase our shame — and I don't think shame is a bad thing."
by Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson via Vox on May 24, 2017

Robert E. Lee Topples From His Pedestal

The Confederate general has long been seen, in the South and beyond, as embodying the virtues of the ideal man.
by Kevin M. Levin via The Atlantic on May 19, 2017

Looking Back to Lincoln

During the Great Depression, Americans found solace in history.
by Fishko Files via WNYC on May 11, 2017

Mr. President, You're Right About Andrew Jackson

If Jackson's presidency had been later, he may have prevented the Civil War.
by Daniel Ruddy via Newsmax on May 6, 2017

As God Is My Witness

A year-long series of photographs and stories that explain the struggle between the old South and the new.
by Johnathon Kelso via The Bitter Southerner on April 4, 2017

The Monument Wars

What is to be done with a landscape whose features carry the legacy of violence?
by Rebecca Solnit via Harper’s on January 13, 2017

Slavery and Freedom

Eric Foner, Walter Johnson, Thavolia Glymph, and Annette Gordon-Reed discuss trends in the study of slavery and emancipation.
by Eric Foner, Thavolia Glymph, Annette Gordon-Reed, Walter Johnson via YouTube on May 20, 2016

How Hillary Clinton Got On The Wrong Side of Liberals' Changing Theory of American History

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.
by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on January 26, 2016
The Liberty Place monument surrounded by streetcars and pedestrians in the early twentieth century.

Why the New Orleans Vote on Confederate Monuments Matters

The city council decides to remove four memorials that offered a distorted picture of the city’s past.
by Kevin M. Levin via The Atlantic on December 17, 2015

The Split Personality of Ken Burns’s “The Civil War”

The documentary's accommodation of the Lost Cause narrative may have left viewers with a skewed understanding of the conflict.
by Kevin M. Levin via Civil War Memory on August 31, 2015

Don’t Tear Down Confederate Monuments – Do This Instead

Why eliminate street names that tell one part of Southern history when we can amplify them to tell even more of it?
by Jack Hitt via Reuters on July 23, 2015

What Was the Confederate Flag Doing in Cuba, Vietnam, and Iraq?

The Confederate flag’s military tenure continued long after the Civil War ended.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on July 7, 2015

“Richmond Reoccupied by Men Who Wore the Gray”

In 1890, the former Confederate capital erected a monument to Robert E. Lee-and reasserted white supremacy.
by Maurie D. McInnis via Slate on July 1, 2015

Our Commemoration of the Civil War’s End Celebrates a Myth

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on April 14, 2015

The Civil War Isn’t Over

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.
by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on April 8, 2015
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Green Sprigs of Courage

How the mythologizing of the Union Army’s Irish Brigade helped dispel anti-Irish sentiment.
via BackStory on March 3, 2015

150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War

As the 150th of the Battle of Gettysburg approaches, it's time to question the popular account of a war that tore apart the nation.
by Tony Horwitz via The Atlantic on June 19, 2013
Gen. Lew Wallace, circa 1861.

The Incredible Life of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and Author of Ben-Hur

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.
by John Swansburg via Slate on March 26, 2013
Paul Philippoteaux's cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg depicting the Union and Confederate armies fighting.

The Great Illusion of Gettysburg

How a re-creation of its most famous battle helped erase the meaning of the Civil War.
by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on February 6, 2012

Thanks a Lot, Ken Burns

Because of you, my Civil War lecture is always packed with students raised on your romantic, deeply misleading portrait of the conflict.
by James M. Lundberg via Slate on June 7, 2011
Confederate soldier with wife and baby.
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Fighting for Home

How the idea of “home” motivated Confederate soldiers, and strengthened their resolve to fight.
via BackStory on March 31, 2011

Making Sense of Robert E. Lee

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”— Robert E. Lee, at Fredericksburg
by Roy Blount Jr. via Smithsonian on July 1, 2003
Abraham Lincoln

Was the Civil War Inevitable?

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 21, 2025
Movie poster of The Birth of a Nation depicting a Ku Klux Klan member as a knight.

How the Work of Thomas Dixon Shaped White America’s Racist Fantasies

On the literary and cinematic legacy of white supremacy in the United States.
by Joel Edward Goza via Literary Hub on September 23, 2024
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