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Caroline E. Janney

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The Next Lost Cause?

The South’s mythology glamorized a noble defeat. Trump backers may do the same.

by Caroline E. Janney via Washington Post on July 31, 2020
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Why We Need Confederate Monuments

They force us to remember the worst parts of our history.

by Caroline E. Janney via Made By History on July 27, 2017

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Lindsey R. Peterson.

'Home Builders': Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Civil War Commemorations

On the gendered dimensions of trans-Mississippi Civil War memory, the idea of the single-family household, and the politics of expansion and settlement.

by Robert D. Bland, Lindsey R. Peterson via Muster on April 23, 2025

Ginger R. Stephens (center), a Virginia leader of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, joined other celebrants at a 2018 commemoration of Jefferson Davis’s birthday.

Yes, They’re Pro-Confederacy. But They’re Just the Nicest Ladies!

You can call the United Daughters of the Confederacy a lot of things. But racist? Why, some of their best friends…

by Anna Venarchik via The New Republic on December 5, 2023

Monument to Confederate War Dead in Hollywood Cemetery

Hollywood Cemetery: The Treatment of Post-War Confederate Dead

While cemeteries are tributes to the dead, they are really about the living. They are about those who want to commemorate something.

via The American Civil War Museum on June 29, 2022

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