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Washington National Cathedral to Remove Stained Glass Windows Honoring Confederates

The debate over confederate iconography arrives in the closest thing the U.S. has to an official church.

by Michelle Boorstein via Washington Post on September 6, 2017

Making Sense of the Violence in Charlottesville

Was the white-nationalist march better understood as a departure from America’s traditional values, or viewed in the context of its history?

by Elizabeth Klein, James Forman Jr. via The Atlantic on September 3, 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

The Pernicious Myth of the ‘Loyal Slave’ Lives on in Confederate Memorials

Statues don’t need to venerate military leaders of the Civil War to promulgate false narratives.

by Kevin M. Levin via Smithsonian on August 17, 2017

Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

The Battle of Charlottesville

What happened in Virginia was not the culminating battle of this conflict. It’s likely a tragic preface to more of the same.

by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on August 13, 2017

Robert E. Lee Statue in Charlottesville.

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

Supporters of Confederate Symbols Have Less Knowledge of Civil War History

This negates a commonly used defense that Confederate symbols represent ‘heritage not hate’.

by Logan Strother, Thomas Ogorzalek, Spencer Piston via USAPP on July 3, 2017

Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and the Misuse of American History

The eliding of the ugliness of America's racial history is neither novel nor particularly surprising.

by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on March 8, 2017

Reasserting White Supremacy

South Carolina’s Ben Tillman and the 2016 presidential election.

by Caroline Grego via Erstwhile: A History Blog on November 30, 2016

The Cause Was Never Lost

The Confederate flag remains the symbol of our unfinished reckoning with race and violence for good reason.

by Jason Morgan Ward via The American Historian on November 2, 2015

Don’t Tear Down Confederate Monuments – Do This Instead

Why eliminate street names that tell one part of Southern history when we can amplify them to tell even more of it?

by Jack Hitt via Reuters on July 23, 2015

“Richmond Reoccupied by Men Who Wore the Gray”

In 1890, the former Confederate capital erected a monument to Robert E. Lee-and reasserted white supremacy.

by Maurie D. McInnis via Slate on July 1, 2015

What This Cruel War Was Over

The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 22, 2015

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