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How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War.

by Coleman Lowndes via Vox on October 25, 2017

How Theaters and TV Networks are Changing the Way They Show Gone With the Wind

After almost 80 years, America is finally rethinking how it screens its favorite movie.

by Aisha Harris via Slate on October 22, 2017

Hanged, Burned, Shot, Drowned, Beaten

In a region where symbols of the Confederacy are ubiquitous, an unprecedented memorial takes shape.

by Kriston Capps via The Atlantic on October 4, 2017

Pour One Out for Ulysses S. Grant

His presidency was known for corruption, scandal, and booze. In a new book, Ron Chernow attempts to rehabilitate it.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on October 2, 2017

Remembering Our KKK Past

A dark moment in American history offers lessons for the present.

by Jane Dailey via HuffPost on September 12, 2017

When the Idea of Home Was Key to American Identity

From log cabins to Gilded Age mansions, how you lived determined where you belonged.

by Richard White via What It Means to Be American on September 11, 2017

White Supremacists and the Rhetoric of "Tyranny"

White supremacists have long used fear of losing essential rights in their arguments.

by Livia Gershon, Marek D. Steedman via JSTOR Daily on August 31, 2017

We Need a New Museum that Tells Us How We Came to Believe What We Believe

The answers are just as important as the stories that our history books tell.

by T. J. Stiles via HNN on August 27, 2017

The Monuments We Never Built

Why we must ask not only what stories our landscapes of commemoration tell, but also what stories they leave out.

by Brian Hamilton via Edge Effects on August 22, 2017

The Confederate General Who Was Erased

There's a reason you won't find many monuments in the South to one of Robert E. Lee's most able deputies.

by Jane Dailey via HuffPost on August 21, 2017

Charlottesville and the Mississippi Flag

A group of historians takes a stand for the removal of the Confederate emblem from their state's flag.

by Robert Luckett, Otis W. Pickett via Jackson Free Press on August 21, 2017

Why Those Confederate Soldier Statues Look a Lot Like Their Union Counterparts

Many monuments in the South were made in the North — by the same companies, and with the same molds, as those sold to Northern towns.

by Marc Fisher via Washington Post on August 18, 2017

Spectacle of Hate

From cross-dressing to white robes to Tiki torches, what we can learn from white supremacists’ long history of carefully cultivating their own aesthetic.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on August 17, 2017

Some Thoughts on Public Memory

The only logic to honoring Lee is to honor treason and treason in the worst possible cause.

by Josh Marshall via Talking Points Memo on August 14, 2017

The 14th Amendment Solved One Citizenship Crisis, But It Created A New One

How birthright citizenship became a barrier for undocumented immigrants.

by Martha S. Jones via Made By History on July 9, 2017

Trump’s Loyalty Fixation Recalls One of the US’s Most Disastrous Presidencies

What we can learn about the current moment from Congress' efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson.

by Erik Mathisen via The Conversation on June 28, 2017

The Myth of the Kindly General Lee

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on June 4, 2017

The Battle for Memorial Day in New Orleans

A century and a half after the Civil War, Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked his city to reexamine its past — and to wrestle with hard truths.

by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on May 29, 2017

Oscar Dunn And The New Orleans Monument That Never Happened

New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.

by Laine Kaplan-Levenson via New Orleans Public Radio on May 25, 2017

When Congress Almost Ousted a Failing President

It’s Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson, who provides the best model for Trump’s collapsing presidency.

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on May 20, 2017

What Richmond Has Gotten Right About Interpreting its Confederate History

Why hasn't Richmond faced the same controversies as New Orleans or Charlottesville?

by Kevin M. Levin via Smithsonian on May 18, 2017

A Dual Emancipation

How black freedom benefited poor whites.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Black Perspectives on April 15, 2017

Reconstruction era political cartoon.

The Political Cartoon That Explains the Battle Over Reconstruction

Take a deep dive into this drawing by famed illustrator Thomas Nast.

by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on March 2, 2017

The Tragic, Forgotten History of Black Military Veterans

The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians.

by Peter C. Baker via The New Yorker on November 26, 2016

Welcome to the Second Redemption

The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on slandering him.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 10, 2016

A line of prison laborers by a railroad.

“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force

After emancipation, prison labor replaced slavery as a way for white Southerners to enforce a racial hierarchy.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Black Perspectives on July 11, 2016

Land and The Roots of African-American Poverty

Land redistribution could have served as the primary means of reparations for former slaves. Instead, it did exactly the opposite.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Aeon on March 11, 2016

K Troop

The untold story of the eradication of the original Ku Klux Klan.

by Matthew Pearl via Slate on March 4, 2016

The Birth of the Ku Klux Brand

A new book re-traces the origins of the 19th-century KKK, which began as a social club before swiftly moving to murder.

by Malcolm Harris via Pacific Standard on February 19, 2016

How Hillary Clinton Got On The Wrong Side of Liberals' Changing Theory of American History

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.

by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on January 26, 2016

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