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New Poll Shows Growing Opposition to Symbols of the Confederacy

The latest Quinnipiac University Poll shows growing opposition to the display of Lost Cause relics like the statues of Confederate leaders. They also now view…

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What Can We Learn from the Germans About Remembering the Civil War and Reconstruction

The New Yorker interviewed philosopher Susan Neiman about what Americans can learn from the post-World War II Germans about remembering and commemorating slavery, the Civil…

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Watch Video of Armed Militiamen Confronting Pastor Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirt at Gettysburg

The far-right militiamen who assembled fully armed at Gettysburg on July 4th mobbed a Methodist pastor in the National Cemetery there because he was wearing…

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The Defenders of Confederate Symbology OnLine and the Current Moment

I like to visit the different Civil War blogs and participate in the Civil War social mediashpere, but I often feel like a tourist. While…

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The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby

The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby published by University of Virginia Press, 272 pages (2020) Hardcover…

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“Gone With the Wind” Is a Confederate Monument Says Historian Nina Silber

Historian Nina Silber has an interesting article in today’s Washington Post titled ‘Gone With the Wind’ is also a Confederate monument, but on film instead…

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Southern Historical Society Holds First Meeting May 1869 for “history of the war from a Southern stand-point”

The first meeting of what would become a prime defender of the justice of the  Confederate cause was held in May, 1869 in New Orleans….

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Book Review: Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris

Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris published by LSU Press (2014) Hardcover $42.50 Kindle $26.49. ​…

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Podcast: Nina Silber on How the Civil War and Reconstruction Were Remembered in the 1930s and 1940s

Nina Silber, the author of This War Aint Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America is interviewed by Gerry  Prokopowicz for this podcast from…

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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates by Edward Pollard

The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates by Edward Pollard (1866). Available Free Here. The Lost Cause by Edward Pollard is a…

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