Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
Washington Post Database Identifies 1,700 Slaveowners In Senate and Congress
The Washington Post has put together a remarkable database of Members of Congress and Senators who owned slaves. You can find the article explaining the…
Jefferson Davis and the Constitutional Right to Own Slaves
Many of us learned in school to revere the Constitution as a “Charter of Freedom,” a Magna Carta of rights for the ordinary citizen. More…
Andersonville and the Whitewashing of History
We know of the suffering and death at Andersonville prison during its fourteen months as a Confederate prison for captured Union soldiers in 1864 and…
Opponents of Reconstruction Used Tropes of White Victimization to Oppose Black Equality
Historian Lawrence Glickman has a fascinating article in The Atlantic on the ways modern opponents of civil rights use tropes common among the opponents of…
NY Times Book Review Podcast Interview With Clint Smith on “How the Word Was Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery”
The first half hour of the New York Times Book Review podcasts is devoted to Clint Smith’s new book on how historic sites interpret slavery,…
Civil War Institute Mapping Confederate Statues Throughout the South
The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College has announced a new project called State of the Confederacy. According to the Civil War Institute: This is…
Sons of Confederate Veterans Tribute to Nathan Bedford Forrest at 1909 UCV Convention
The 1909 Convention of the United Confederate Veterans was held in Memphis, Tenn. between June 8 and June 10. The annual conventions of the premier…
Celebrating the End of Reconstruction With a Mardi Gras Tribute to the Aryan Race
As white rule was being restored in state capitals across the South in 1877, the Krewe of Comus celebrated the alleged supremacy of the white…
Ku Klux Klan Float at the 1872 Memphis Mardi Gras
The 1872 Memphis Mardi Gras featured a Klan float. This was the first-ever Mardi Gras parade in the city, which had seen a bloody massacre…
NY Times Reviews Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule
The New York Times has a review out of the new book ROBERT E. LEE AND ME: A Southerner’s Reckoning With the Myth of the…
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