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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

The Persistence of Whitewashing

How can Americans have such different memories of slavery?

by Jason Silverstein via The New Republic on May 31, 2018

Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments

Confederate monuments were essential pieces of white supremacist propaganda.

by William Sturkey via Black Perspectives on March 3, 2018

High school student in Shreveport.

Taking a Knee and Taking Down a Monument

The struggle over Shreveport's Confederate monument converges with talk about a national anthem protest by high-schoolers.

by Brent McDonald via New York Times Op-Docs on January 9, 2018

The Nationalist's Delusion

Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty—not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 20, 2017

Ed Ayers next to the cover of his book, "The Thin Light of Freedom."

The Thin Light of Freedom

On this episode of BackStory, Brian sits down with Ed to talk about a project of his that’s been twenty-five years in the making.

via BackStory on November 17, 2017

Trump Sounds Ignorant of History. But Racist Ideas Often Masquerade as Ignorance.

The White House's fumbling about slavery and the Civil War fits a long pattern in American politics.

by Ibram X. Kendi via Washington Post on November 13, 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

Robert E. Lee statue

Robert E. Lee WAS a Man of Honor. That’s the Problem.

For white southerners, honor had little to do with justice.

by Kevin Waite via Made By History on November 7, 2017

Still Worrying about The Civil War

John Kelly's statement about the Civil War is not surprising, but they are a reminder that we should still be worrying about the Civil War.

by Adam I. P. Smith via Adam I. P. Smith: Historian on November 2, 2017

The South Only Embraced States' Rights as It Lost Control of the Federal Government

For decades, slaveholders were powerfully committed to the Union. That changed when Washington stopped protecting their interests.

by W. Caleb McDaniel via The Atlantic on November 1, 2017

“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

(Still) Worrying About the Civil War

Why I decided to devote my professional life to something I wasn't very interested in.

by Ed Ayers on August 25, 2017

Growing Up in the Shadow of the Confederacy

Memorials to the Lost Cause have always meant something sinister for the descendants of enslaved people.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on August 22, 2017

W. E. B. DuBois testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

No Excuses for a Racist Murderer

A 1928 essay by W.E.B. DuBois on the legacy of Robert E. Lee.

via In These Times on August 22, 2017

A stone marker for the Jefferson Davis Highway in Crawfordville, Georgia.

The Largest Confederate Monument in America Can't Be Taken Down

It has to be renamed, state by state.

by Kevin Waite via Made By History on August 22, 2017

Why I Changed My Mind About Confederate Monuments

Empty pedestals can offer the same lessons about racism and war that the statues do.

by Kevin M. Levin via The Atlantic on August 19, 2017

"I've Studied The History Of Confederate Memorials. Here's What To Do About Them."

Many were funded privately. The public now deserves a say in their fate.

by W. Fitzhugh Brundage via Vox on August 18, 2017

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

When Slaveholders Ran America

Before the Civil War, many Southern leaders hoped to expand slavery even beyond the nation's borders.

by Abrahim Sundiata via Public Books on March 1, 2017

A still from a film western depicting a fictionalized version of volunteers at the Alamo.

What a 1950s Texas Textbook Can Teach Us About Today's Textbook Fight

Texas education officials have preliminarily voted to reject a Mexican-American history textbook that scholars have said was riddled with inaccuracies.

by Nathan Bernier via KUT 90.5 on November 16, 2016

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

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Was Extremely Racist — Even By the Standards of His Time

He called black people "an ignorant and inferior race," and it gets worse.

by Dylan Matthews via Vox on November 20, 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

Shades of green.

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

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