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Tony Horwitz

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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?

An author's search for the "real" Christopher Columbus.

via BackStory on October 10, 2014

Columbus and crew landing boat at San Salvador

1492: Columbus in American Memory

Columbus Day is here again -- along with the controversy over its namesake. How have earlier generations understood him?

via BackStory on October 10, 2014

Protesters, one holding a Black Lives Matter sign, stand under the Confederate monument carved into Stone Mountain.

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.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 8, 2020

Robert E. Lee statue

The Fight Over Virginia’s Confederate Monuments

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.

by Benjamin Wallace-Wells via The New Yorker on December 4, 2017

The house of Alfred Iverson Jr. behind a white curtain.

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.

by John T. Edge via Oxford American on April 8, 2014

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