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What should be done with civic monuments to the Confederacy and its leaders?

by James J. Broomall, Megan Kate Nelson, Dana B. Shoaf, William C. Davis, Lesley J. Gordon, Harold Holzer, Michael J. McAfee, Thomas V. Strain Jr., Catherine Clinton, Christy S. Coleman, D. Scott Hartwig, Robert K. Krick, Joseph McGill, Ethan Sepp Rafuse, Susannah J. Ural via Civil War Times Magazine on October 1, 2017

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Black residents of Natchez, Miss., walk alongside a railroad track in August 1940.

One of the Biggest U.S. Slave Markets Finally Reckons With Its Past

Natchez, Miss., is beginning to highlight the history of its enslaved people—including at a Black-owned bed and breakfast in former slave quarters.

by Sarah Enelow-Snyder via Retropolis on November 26, 2023

A man walking by graffiti on a white wall that reads "Why do we have to keep telling you black lives matter?"

What the Protesters Tagging Historic Sites Get Right About the Past

Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression.

by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Smithsonian on June 26, 2020

Civil War re-enactors at the Bentonville Battlefield in Four Oaks, N.C., March 21, 2015.

After Charlottesville, New Shades of Gray in a Changing South

Celebrations of the Confederacy have steadily ebbed, and the recent confrontations will accelerate this retreat among all but the extremists.

by Tony Horwitz via The Wall Street Journal on August 25, 2017

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