Tag: memory studies
I’ve Heard of Ida B. Wells. Why Lie and Say She Is Unknown?
There is a meme going around about a well-known African American journalist. I reproduce it below. Facebook pulled the meme because it is obvious fake…
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…
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…