Category: Monuments
Manassas Battlefield Confederate Park & Historical Vindication of the Confederacy
At its 1926 Convention, the Sons of Confederate Veterans spent a lot of time on a discussion of an internal dispute over its effort to…
Opposing Stone Mountain’s Confederate Memorialization & Lee’s Shrine in 1926
In the 1920s, Confederate groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans were pushing forward schemes to memorialize the…
Montgomery, Alabama’s Confederate Memory and Black Erasure
Kyle Whitmire of the Birmingham News is writing a series called “State of Denial” which looks at how Alabama tells its history, valorizing the Confederate…
Margaret Renkl in the NY Times on the Removal of the Ugliest Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue
Margaret Renkl, the NY Times Contributing Writer focusing on the American South, writes today of visiting the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Nashville and…
Alabama City of Eufaula Purposely Forgets Its History of 1874 Massacre of Black Voters
The Birmingham News has an in-depth article by Kyle Whitmire on how Eufaula, Alabama ignores is history. This is a city ostensibly steeped in history,…
Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, N.C. Hosting Weekly Programs on USCT
The Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, N.C. attracted a lot of attention in 2021 for its new United States Colored Troops statuary group titled “Boundless.”…
Marker Erected Telling the Story of USCT at the Battle of Nashville
Before the December 2021 anniversary of the Union victory at the Battle of Nashville, a marker was erected near the site of Granbury’s Lunette telling…
Podcast Examines How Civil War Is Remembered at Battlefields and in Monuments
Laura DeMarco discusses her new book “Lost Civil War: The Disappearing Legacy of America’s Greatest Conflict” and Karen Cox, professor at the University of North…
Abolitionist Turner Ashby’s Mob Drove Out Subject of New Virginia Marker
In 1856, future Confederate hero Turner Ashby led a violent pro-slavery mob in an attack against John C. Underwood, of Clarke County, Virginia. Underwood was…
Virginia Approves New Historic Markers Highlighting Civil War & Reconstruction History
The Virginia Board of Historic Resources approved fourteen new highway historic markers at its quarterly meeting in December. The markers are expected to go up…
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