Why Civil War Statues Look the Same
In recent years, the Confederate monument has gained a new level of symbolism, as the item at the center of an ongoing debate — one that reaches far beyond the subject of monuments — about how and whether a nation should remember the darkest moments of its past....
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Tentative Memorial Designed for Emanuel Nine Victims CHARLESTON, S.C. — A member of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church told their current pastor, the Rev. Eric S.C. Manning, last year: “It’s hard for me to comprehend someone could be...
Filling the Swamp
When Donald Trump started running for the Republican nomination for president in June 2015, he began by attacking the Republican establishment in Washington, and he began his attack by calling the establishment “the swamp.” His real target was the...
J.E.B. Stuart and the Great ‘What If’
In his sculpted image on Monument Avenue in Richmond, a leafy boulevard hemmed by stately residences, J.E.B. Stuart is immortalized on horseback. The cavalry commander developed a reputation for leading Confederate troops on raids and fruitful intelligence-gathering...
Female Militia Guarded Georgia Hometown
Like countless other women of the Civil War, the wives, sisters and sweethearts of LaGrange, Georgia watched the majority of men in their town march away to military service in 1861. But while other Confederate women on the home front prepared to nurse the wounded and...Obiter Dicta
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