Confederacy

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• SOURCE: TedEd
  3/1/2021
  

  Debunking the Myth of the Lost Cause: A Lie Embedded in American History

  by Karen L. Cox

  Karen L. Cox examines the cultural myth of the Lost Cause.

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• SOURCE: Virginian-Pilot
  3/1/2021
  

  How a Wave of Segregationist Tributes, from Streets to Schools, Entrenched the Idea of White Supremacy

  Understanding the stakes of renaming public buildings, streets, or schools requires understanding the purposeful politics that attached the names of Confederates to public spaces a century ago, say Virginia historians Dan Margolies and Calvin Pearson.

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• SOURCE: National Parks Traveler
  2/25/2021
  

  Op-Ed | Confederate Memorials Serve A Role In National Parks

  by Harry Butowski

  "The removal of existing statues in our Civil War parks will not change our history, but make it more difficult to confront and examine our history. National parks are the great American classroom where American history is taught."

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• SOURCE: WABE
  3/1/2021
  

  Ga. Lawmaker Authors Bills To Abolish Confederate Monuments In Peach State

  Georgia state representative Shelly Hutchinson argues that while Confederate monuments stand,"there’s no healing that takes place there, and that means you are OK with where we are at as a country.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/23/2021
  

  SPLC: Over 160 Confederate Symbols Were Removed in 2020

  "The nonprofit organization, based in Montgomery, Ala., started tracking symbols of the Confederacy after a white supremacist killed nine Black worshipers at a storied African-American church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015."

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• SOURCE: National Parks Traveler
  2/22/2021
  

  The Future Of Confederate Monuments

  by Kim O'Connell

  “The Park Service needs to ask, ‘Who’s coming to your site and who’s not coming to your site?’” says Denise Meringolo, a professor of public history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “Those monuments are a barrier to significant portions of the audience, for whom they are not simply inaccurate or annoying. They are traumatizing.”

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• SOURCE: Muster
  2/23/2021
  

  The Necessity of National Unity: Defeated Confederates’ International Appeals to Unity

  by Ann Tucker

  Defeated Confederate partisans found justification and support for national reunification without accountability by pointing selectively to the contentious politics of the European nationalist movement. 

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  2/5/2021
  

  Virginia House votes to turn ‘Jefferson Davis Highway’ into ‘Emancipation Highway’

  The bill, which has bipartisan support, would rename any stretches of  US Route 1 still named for the Confederate president as "Emancipation Highway" but would not reflect segments of the road already renamed by local authorities. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/5/2021
  

  A Southerner who abandoned the Lost Cause (Review)

  West Point historian Ty Seidule's book traces his own personal path from venerating the Lost Cause myth of the Confederacy to rejecting it, including questioning the number of monuments to Robert E. Lee at the US Military Academy. 

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• SOURCE: Military.com
  2/3/2021
  

  Navy Task Force Calls for Changing Ship Names that Honor Confederacy

  "Most sailors -- and Navy leaders -- have little idea of [John Stennis's] background, but the Navy, as an institution, has a moral obligation to know," Green argued. "And, it should act."

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  2/2/2021
  

  North Carolina Stops Issuing Confederate Flag License Plates

  "North Carolina will no longer issue new license plates bearing the Confederate flag and will stop renewing plates that already have the symbol, the state’s department of motor vehicles said."

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• SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel
  2/3/2021
  

  Group Asks Florida Police Department to Remove Confederate Flag from Badges

  Pensacola's Citizens Police Advisory Board recommended that the badge design be changed to remove the image of the flag of the Confederate States of America.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  3/3/2021
  

  New Bills Target Stone Mountain, Confederate Monuments Across Georgia

  Two bills would act to broadly prohibit the maintenance or construction of Confederate monuments except in museums or on Civil War battlefields and authorize the state-chartered agency that maintains Stone Mountain Park to remove or modify the park's massive bas relief tribute to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. 

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• 1/31/2021
  

  Trump's Lost Cause Appeal: Can Cultural Victory Follow Political Defeat?

  by Paul J. Croce

  Donald Trump has already begun to follow the Confederate script for a "Lost Cause" battle for cultural validation. Those tempted to join that cause should remember that aside from validating grievances and bigotry, the original Lost Cause did little to help most white Southerners. 

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• SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor
  1/25/2021
  

  ‘Robert E. Lee and Me’ Dismantles Confederate Mythology

  Retired Brigadier General and West Point historian Ty Seidule was drawn to the military by growing up with the myth of the gentleman soldier embodied by Robert E. Lee. His new book deconstructs the myth through autobiography. 

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• SOURCE: The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow
  1/22/2021
  

  Keri Leigh Merritt on White Myths, Lost Causes & True History

  A discussion of the continued relevance of Confederate Lost Cause mythology in the January 6 Capitol riots. 

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• SOURCE: FAIR
  1/15/2021
  

  Keri Leigh Merritt on the New Lost Cause

  Independent historian Keri Leigh Merritt talks with FAIR's CounterSpin about the problem with the media calling the January 6 Capitol riots "unprecedented." 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  1/14/2021
  

  Reconstruction Offers No Easy Answers for How to Handle the Trump Insurgency

  by Rebecca Onion

  It's tricky to draw any definitive lessons about how to deal with the Capitol insurgents from Reconstruction, particularly since many facile "lessons from history" make counterfactual assumptions. Historian Cynthia Nicoletti discusses the complex imperatives of justice, punishment, reconciliation, and national reunification that contributed to the course of Reconstruction.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/14/2021
  

  Five Myths about the Lost Cause

  by Karen L. Cox

  At this time, it's worth examining the particular tenets of the Confederate Lost Cause mythology because of how pervasive they remain and because they may be a template for narratives of resentment and betrayal that are developing now.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/14/2021
  

  The Confederate Battle Flag, Which Rioters Flew Inside the US Capitol, Has Long Been a Symbol of White Insurrection

  by Jordan Brasher

  The Confederate battle flag has always been a symbol of white insurrection and reaction against perceived Black political power. Its presence among the banners flying during the Capitol rioting is no surprise.