Civil War memory
It is highly unfortunate that the latest attempt to reckon with the nation's racist past disappeared about six months. Biden was elected and I guess racism is over or something.......But.
Great piece here in Texas Observer by Gabriel Arana about his own great-grandfather's racism and how that connects to the cult of the Confederacy in Texas. The Confederate Soldiers Monument.
I showed this 1912 film in my Civil War class today. It's a very normal Civil War film on the time, which means that it completely erases anything about slavery,.
Interesting idea: An African-American museum has proposed melting down a statue of Robert E. Lee that was recently taken down in Charlottesville, and then using the bronze material to create.
Before we move too far behind the first federal holiday of Juneteenth, allow me to make two points. One, this is unabashedly a good thing. Two, as I pointed out.
Well this is one way to really stick it to neo-Confederates. A Confederate monument valued at $500,000 was stolen in March from a Selma cemetery, officials confirmed today.This morning, a.
Photograph, Union and Confederate veterans shaking hands at 1938 Gettysburg Reunion Still Pictures ID number: 111-SC-109197 Rediscovery ID number: 19837 DTCW Exhibtion ID number: 8.2.8 18737_2009_001 The Gettysburg reunions that.
This is the grave of Ulysses S. Grant, III. Born in Chicago in 1881, Grant grew up the grandson of the great general and less great president. He didn't know.