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Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

Elizabeth R. Varon

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General Ulysses S. Grant receiving Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

Appomattox Exposes the Dangers of Myths Replacing History

Historians have revealed that the story Americans long learned about the end of the Civil War was a myth.

by Elizabeth R. Varon via Made By History on April 9, 2025

Former U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC held at the Hilton Anatole on Aug. 6, 2022 in Dallas.

What Civil War History Says About Attempts to Use the Insurrection Clause to Keep Trump From Office

Debates about handling Confederates reveal that the 14th Amendment bars unrepentant insurrectionists from office.

by Elizabeth R. Varon via Made By History on November 15, 2023

Rioter holds Confederate flag outside the Senate chamber after breaching the US Capitol on January 6, 2001.

The Secessionist Roots of the Jan. 6 Insurrection

Southern secessionists in 1860 had similar arguments to those of the rioters who stormed the Capitol.

by Elizabeth R. Varon via Made By History on June 15, 2022

Donald Trump.

Trump’s 2020 Playbook Is Coming Straight from Southern Enslavers

Racism — not reformers demanding redress — is the source of American strife.

by Elizabeth R. Varon via Made By History on September 9, 2020

A drawing of the National Emancipation Monument.

The Statue That Never Was

How a monument that championed black sacrifice in the name of emancipation was forgotten.

by Elizabeth R. Varon via Nau Center For Civil War History on July 6, 2020

Crowd gathered around statue for Stonewall Jackson memorial dedication, Charlottesville, 1921.

UVA and the History of Race: The Lost Cause Through Judge Duke’s Eyes

A profile of UVA graduate R.T.W. Duke Jr., who presided over the 1924 dedication of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville.

by Elizabeth R. Varon via UVA Today on September 4, 2019

On Richard Blackett’s "The Captive Quest for Freedom"

Five historians weigh in on a new book about the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.

by Martha S. Jones, Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Elizabeth R. Varon, H. Robert Baker, Hannah-Rose Murray, Simon Newman via Historians Against Slavery on August 2, 2018

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