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Southerners Tore Down Silent Sam. Now Northerners Need to Tear Down Confederate Flags.

Each one flown outside the slave states amounts to an admission that the flag represents whiteness, not Southernness.
by Alex Pareene via HuffPost on August 29, 2018

Here's Why Republicans' Disturbing Romance With the Racist Confederacy Is so Troubling

The road to the violence around statues is paved with hate, lies, and political gamesmanship.
by W. Fitzhugh Brundage via AlterNet on August 17, 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

Think Confederate Monuments Are Racist? Consider Pioneer Monuments

Most early pioneer statues celebrated whites dominating American Indians.
by Cynthia Prescott via The Conversation on August 7, 2018

What Happens When We Forget?

A documentary attempts to remember forgotten lynching victims.
by Lance Warren via Facing South on May 7, 2018

Statues Offensive To Native Americans Are Poised To Topple Across The U.S.

No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds, but Arcata is poised to do just that with a statue of William McKinley.
by Jaweed Kaleem via Los Angeles Times on April 1, 2018

The Black Monuments Project

America is covered in Confederate statues. We can do better — and here’s how.
by Zak Cheney-Rice, Kyle McGovern via Mic on February 1, 2018
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Encountering the Plantation Myth Where You'd Least Expect It

Well off Savannah's tourist trail, there's a replica of an antebellum plantation home in the middle of a public housing project.
by Kevin M. Levin on January 19, 2018

The Strike That Brought MLK to Memphis

In his final days, King stood by striking sanitation workers. We returned to the city to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.
by Ted Conover via Smithsonian on January 1, 2018

Statues, National Monuments, and Settler-Colonialism

Connections between public history and policy in the wake of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
by Rose Miron via National Council on Public History on December 18, 2017

Columbus Circle Without Columbus?

New York's statue debate hits Italian-Americans hard.
by Harry Bruinius via The Christian Science Monitor on December 15, 2017
People gathered around the Arlington confederate monument

The History of the History of American Slavery

In an age when the White House is being asked if slavery was a good or bad thing, perhaps we should take a look at the history of the history of slavery.
by Gaines M. Foster, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on November 30, 2017

Kings of the Confederate Road

Two writers — one black, one white — journey to Selma, Alabama, in search of "Southern heritage." This is their dialogue. 
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Tad Bartlett via The Bitter Southerner on November 28, 2017

What to Do with Monuments Whose History We’ve Forgotten

Few who are memorialized in stone could fully pass moral muster today. Is that a problem?
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on November 26, 2017

Confederate Revisionist History

Americans should not honor a revolt to uphold slavery with monuments or florid displays.
by Douglas Massey via Public Books on November 8, 2017

Let’s Relitigate the Civil War

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.
by Jeet Heer via The New Republic on November 1, 2017

How Theaters and TV Networks are Changing the Way They Show Gone With the Wind

After almost 80 years, America is finally rethinking how it screens its favorite movie.
by Aisha Harris via Slate on October 22, 2017

Recontextualizing the Ocean Blue

Italian Americans and the commemoration of Columbus.
by Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra via Process: A Blog for American History on October 4, 2017

Defenders Of Confederate Monuments Keep Trying To Erase History

Claims that the Confederacy didn't fight to uphold slavery are disputed by Confederate generals themselves.
by Adam H. Domby via HuffPost on September 15, 2017
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“I Wanted to Tell the Story of How I Had Become a Racist”

An interview with historian Charles B. Dew.
by Charles B. Dew, Robin Lindley via HNN on September 10, 2017

Where Donald Trump Learned His Tough Love for History

He professes admiration for "statues and monuments" but his family has a record of tearing down rather than preserving.
by Michael Kruse via Politico Magazine on August 24, 2017

A Most American Terrorist

The Making Of Dylann Roof.
by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah via GQ on August 21, 2017

The South Rises Yet Again, This Time on HBO

In a world where Confederate flags continue to fly, it is hard not to cry “enough” at this continued emphasis on all-things-Confederate.
by Nina Silber via Muster on July 31, 2017
A crowd celebrates the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state house.

Bree Newsome Reflects On Taking Down South Carolina's Confederate Flag Two Years Ago

"Removing the flag in South Carolina was one thing, but racism exists in South Carolina as policy and social practice."
by Bree Newsome, Lottie Joiner via Vox on June 27, 2017

America’s Most Political Food

The founder of a popular South Carolina barbecue restaurant was a white supremacist.
by Lauren Collins via The New Yorker on April 24, 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

Bryan Stevenson on Charleston and Our Real Problem with Race

"I don't believe slavery ended in 1865, I believe it just evolved."
by Corey G. Johnson, Bryan Stevenson via The Marshall Project on June 24, 2015

The Unlikely Paths of Grant and Lee

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on April 9, 2015

The Weeping Time

A forgotten history of the largest slave auction ever on American soil.
by Kristopher Monroe via The Atlantic on July 10, 2014

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