
Tag: confederate nostalgia

To me, the question about why the Germans hold nostalgia for openly racist regimes is not that hard to answer, but let’s answer it anyway because the Germans love them some Southern plantation n
Gwinnett County, Georgia put up a Confederate monument in……1993! It’s now coming down. At 10:01 p.m. Thursday night, the 28-year-old Confederate monument that stood in Lawrencevilleâ
Well, at least something good happened today. A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has represented Virginia in the U.S. Capitol for 111 years has been removed. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam s
This is the grave of Jubal Early. Unfortunately born in 1816, one of the worst people in all of American history grew up in the Virginia elite. His father had a 4,000 acre tobacco farm worked with lar
I‘m not really linking to this because I think it will happen. But it is an interesting argument from the Civil War and Reconstruction historian Caroline Janney. The Lost Cause offered former Co
I used to teach at Southwestern University in Texas. It’s a weird place in that it really isn’t that conservative of a school, but there is a huge Greek culture there, which means, or at l

I thought this was pretty great. Now it had arrived, the final morning that the statue would stand above the grounds of North Carolina’s Capitol. The moment had arrived after three weeks of protests
Like most of you, I have a pretty limited patience for Cleetus Safaris by the media. But this discussion of the Confederate flag in a town in Alabama is telling, just in the fact that these people are
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