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Confederate Monument Dedications in NC Often Were Explicitly Racist

In a 2017 newspaper article, scholar Brian Fennessy wrote that in researching Confederate monument dedication speeches in North Carolina “I searched for dedication speeches that…

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Confederate Veteran William Simkins Describes His Role in the Ku Klux Klan

William Simkins was a professor of law at the University of Texas in Austin on Thanksgiving in 1914 when he decided to use his speech…

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Tour of University of Texas Racial Geography, Emancipation, and The Lost Cause

The University of Texas now has a Racial Geography Tour of the famous campus in Austin. The tour can be explored in person or virtually…

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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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The Curious Incident of the “Girl” Who Won the Daughters of the Confederacy Essay Contest

The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) sponsored a lot of essay contests to encourage young people to learn “the true history” of slavery, the…

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“The fundamental principle of Democracy is that Negro Suffrage is wrong” Debating the 15th Amendment in Georgia

In March of 1869 states took up the ratification of the 15th Amendment. One state where significant conservative Democratic opposition to the Amendment granting Black…

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How Did American History Textbooks Remember the Ku Klux Klan?

The recent book Remembering Reconstruction has an essay titled “The Cultural Work of the Ku-Klux Klan in US History Textbooks, 1883–2015” by Elaine Parsons. The…

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“An unwavering advocate for the supremacy of the Caucasian race”

I found this ad for a newspaper called The Independent Monitor in the Mobile Register. It states right up front that this is a Whites-Only…

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University of South Carolina Honored Its First Black Professor (1873) With a Statue

​Richard T. Greener holds two academic “firsts.” He was the first African American to graduate from Harvard (1870) and he was the first black professor…

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Watch Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War” Recorded in Brooklyn Today

Historian  Heather Cox Richardson gave a talk today at the Brooklyn Historical Society on her new book How the South Won the Civil War which…

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