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Henry Louis Gates in NY Times on the Current Attack on Black History and Mildred Rutherford of the UDC

Historian Henry Louis Gates has a prominent article in the New York Times on the current attacks on the teaching of  Black history. Here are…

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Posted in Education White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics

The Roots of the Attack on the Teaching of Black History Date Back to the End of Reconstruction

The Washington Post has an article today on the similarities between today’s attack on the teaching of Black history and the suppression of the Black…

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Posted in Civil War Monuments White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics

Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery to Be Removed-But What to Do With It?

One of the most controversial Confederate monuments is the massive one at Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington D.C. For nearly a decade calls for…

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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…

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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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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Women and Gender

When the Daughters of the Confederacy Wanted a Statue Dedicated to “Loyal Mammies”

The United Daughters of the Confederacy were one of the most effective women’s organizations in the South in the early 20th Century. They fostered the…

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Why Do We Believe Crazy Stuff About the Civil War, Slavery, and Reconstruction?

George Huffman has an interesting article in Facing South on the miseducation of tens of millions of Americans in the South about our country’s history….

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Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen Cox

Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen Cox published by Florida University Press (2003). Hardcover $55.00,…

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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…

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