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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
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
The Mammy Washington Almost Had
In 1923, the U.S. Senate approved a new monument in D.C. "in memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South."
by
Tony Horwitz
via
The Atlantic
on
May 31, 2013
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Who was Christopher Columbus?
Writer Tony Horwitz, author of A Voyage Long and Strange (2008), discusses his search for the “real” Christopher Columbus.
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BackStory
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October 10, 2014
Hatred Set in Stone
The Confederate memorial carving at Georgia’s Stone Mountain is etched with more than a century of racist history. But tearing it down won’t be so easy.
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Rebecca Onion
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on
July 8, 2020
The Fight Over Virginia’s Confederate Monuments
How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells
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The New Yorker
on
December 4, 2017
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1492: Columbus in American Memory
Columbus Day is here again -- along with the controversy over its namesake. How have earlier generations understood him?
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BackStory
on
October 10, 2014
My Civil War
A southerner discovers the inaccuracy of the the myths he grew up with, and slowly comes to terms with his connection to the Civil War.
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John T. Edge
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Oxford American
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April 8, 2014
