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People Still Care About History Say the 400,000 Americans Who Visited Lynching Memorial Last Year

Bryan Stevenson, author, lawyer, and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, was interviewed on WNYC today. The second segment covers the new memorial…

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Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen Cox

Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen Cox published by Florida University Press (2003). Hardcover $55.00,…

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House Museums Telling the Stories of the Slaves as Well as the Masters

Today’s New York Times has an interesting article on how house museums are finally telling the stories of the slaves who lived there. If you…

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Video Lectures: “The Road from Appomattox: Political Violence, Military Conflict, and National Reunion”

On February 20, 2016 the Library of Virginia hosted The Road From Appomattox Symposium. C-SPAN posted some of the lectures, so I thought a post…

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Kommemorating the Klan’s Birthplace With a Backwards Plaque in Pulaski, Tn,

Six Confederate veterans created the Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, in Pulaski, Tennessee. Or maybe they didn’t. Much about the early months of…

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When There Was Opposition to the National Park Service Doing Reconstruction History It Came from Sons of Confederate Veterans

Now that the National Park Service is in the fourth year of its work on the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park in Beaufort, SC, it can…

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