Confederacy

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• 8/4/19
  

  Trump’s Tariff War Resembles the Confederacy’s Failed Trade Policies

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  If the present conflict over tariffs leads to diminished Chinese involvement in American affairs, the Trump administration’s risky trade fight may resemble the Confederates’ foolish gamble on the diplomatic clout of King Cotton.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/26/19
  

  A Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South

  by Jordan Brasher and Derek H. Alderman

  If the aim of statue removal is to build a more racially just South, then, as many analysts have pointed out, putting these monuments in storage is a lost opportunity. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/22/19
  

  What Should Happen to Confederate Statues? A City Auctions One for $1.4 Million

  Dallas, unable to find a suitable new home for a bronze statue of Robert E. Lee on horseback that had sat in a city park until 2017, recently sent the artifact to an online auction.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/21/19
  

  Richmond Is at a Crossroads. Will Arthur Ashe Boulevard Point the Way?

  Last Saturday, the city renamed a major thoroughfare after Ashe. It will slice across Monument Avenue, known for its outsized statues of Confederate generals.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/21/19
  

  Bowling Green State Removed Lillian Gish's Name from Their Theatre Over Her Role in Birth of a Nation. Why Do Some Want the Name Restored?

  A who's who of film -- James Earl Jones, Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese, among others -- want the name restored.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  6/24/19
  

  Don’t Want Your School to Be Named for a Confederate General? Find Someone Else Named Lee

  Schools honor others with surname to avoid costs of repainting or new signs.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/19/19
  

  She Was Born Into Slavery, Was a Spy and Is Celebrated as a Hero—But We're Missing the Point of the 'Mary Bowser' Story

  by Lois Leveen

  As a historian, I’ve grown concerned that our impulse to celebrate a black spy in the Confederate White House is impeding us from getting history right, in troubling ways.

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Origins of the Lost Cause Myth

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  States’ rights and slavery, while theoretically distinct, were in praxis intertwined. Here's what a Jeffersonian analysis of Jubal Early’s lost-cause apologia can teach us.

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• SOURCE: TPM
  6/7/19
  

  Some In Maine Fret New State Ballad Is Too Hard On The Confederacy

  They may represent a minority position, but the sentiment shows just how far the Myth of the Lost Cause, a systematic effort to rehabilitate the racist legacy of the Confederacy, has spread. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/23/19
  

  When the Names on Campus Buildings Evoke a Racist Past

  Last month, the University of Minnesota board of regents held a special meeting to discuss whether to remove the names of four former university administrators at the school’s Twin Cities campus.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  3/25/19
  

  An enormous Confederate flag is going on display in Philly this week — here’s why

  “What would it mean to the psychology of this nation if the truce flag replaced the flag associated with hate and white supremacy?”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/17/19
  

  Atlanta’s Civil War Monument, Minus the Pro-Confederate Bunkum

  A new exhibition of a gigantic painting uses historical fact to dispel Lost Cause mythology.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/22/19
  

  Old Yearbook Photo Shows Tennessee Governor Dressed as Confederate Soldier

  The governor’s statement comes as racially insensitive photographs in old yearbooks have increasingly raised demands for accountability and explanation from the prominent individuals associated with them.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/21/19
  

  Blackface, KKK hoods and mock lynchings: Review of 900 yearbooks finds blatant racism

  In one of the most extensive searches of college yearbooks ever, we found blackface and Ku Klux Klan photos like Ralph Northam's far beyond Virginia.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/18/19
  

  Welcome to (possibly) the only town in America that wants a new Civil War memorial

  The proposed memorial could be the only one in the nation to include both a president and his assassin.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/13/19
  

  Union demands apology after seeing Confederate book displayed in congressman's office

  Members of a federal labor union visiting a Georgia Republican's congressional office Monday said they discovered a 19th-century book on display that they considered "racially offensive."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/13/19
  

  The ‘Loyal Slave’ Photo That Explains the Northam Scandal

  by Kevin M. Levin

  The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/7/19
  

  A Complicated Racial History Underpins Politics In Virginia

  The controversies rocking Richmond are a reminder of the complicated racial history that underpins Virginia politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/19
  

  Virginia is the birthplace of American slavery and segregation — and it still can’t escape that legacy

  Four hundred years after the first enslaved Africans were brought to the United States, the commonwealth reckons with the consequences of the system it created.

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• SOURCE: Dallas News
  2/2/19
  

  As a historian, my instinct was to preserve Confederate monuments, but I changed my mind

  by W. Marvin Dulaney

  After taking a closer look at them and the historical lies that they present and perpetuate, and the reverence that they hold upon the nation's landscape I was convinced that all of them need to come down.