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 least it did a decade ago, that even hippie kids...
confederate nostalgia
It doesn't really need to be repeated here I suppose. But it is always worth remembering that all the myths about the Confederacy being this anti-capitalist state is trash and.
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.
Protesters hold a sign during a rally to take down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Statehouse, Tuesday, June 23, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. For years, South Carolina lawmakers refused to revisit the Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds, saying the law that took it...
You know, I very rarely agree with David Petraeus, but I agree with him on renaming our military bases named after traitors 1865%: Fort Bragg and most of the other.
The decision to tear down the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond builds on a decade or more of activists seeking to purge the racist monuments at the core of.
Ralph Northam's past may be, uh, racially problematic, but he's certainly making up for it now. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday for the removal of an iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Richmond’s prominent Monument Avenue, a...
Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House after the president accepted Haley's resignation in.
The historian Ana Lucia Araujo has a good essay on Confederate monuments and how to respond to the idea that taking them down or renaming things named after these racist.
This is the grave of John Daniel. Born in 1842 in Lynchburg, Virginia to the state's elite slaveholding class, not everything was great as a child for the young John Daniel. His mother died when he was three, giving birth to his little sister. His...
This is the grave of Douglas Southall Freeman. Born in 1886 in Lynchburg, Virginia, Freeman grew up to be one of a handful of people who popularized the romantic vision.
Tony Horwitz has died suddenly, only 60 years old. I can't say what an important book Confederates in the Attic was when it came out in 1998. It's really a.