Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
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…
Effort by Trump Administration to Alter History Teaching Condemned by Actual Historians
The final effort by the Trump administration to alter the teaching of history was a report from the newly minted 1776 Commission released on Martin…
Two Obscure Confederate Monuments in the Florida Panhandle
We saw a lot of media attention given to Confederate monuments over the summer. These monuments often occupy prominent spaces in Southern towns and cities….
When Frederick Douglass Met Pres. Johnson to Ask for Right to Vote, Johnson Warned of Race War
On February 7, 1866 Frederick Douglass led a delegation of 13 representatives of the National Convention of Colored Men to the White House to meet…