What I Told the Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History
This morning I had a pleasant conversation with the executive director of the Danville (Va.) Museum of Fine Arts & History about how to respond to public concerns regarding plans to remove a...
View ArticleWeary Clyburn Didn’t Serve the Confederacy, He Survived It
It’s been a week of posts about Weary Clyburn and I suspect many of you would prefer that I move on to something else. Many of the usual suspects in the Southern heritage community believe that I am...
View ArticleConfederate Monument Replaced By a Bud
Update: No surprise that Richard Williams is upset about the removal of the statue. He goes through his standard schtick by blaming the politically correct crowd, but then refers to me as part of the...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
On Tuesday night the local chapters of Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy of Murray, Kentucky came out to commemorate Confederate Memorial Day. The keynote address...
View ArticleThe United Daughters of the Confederacy’s Curious Silence on the Confederate...
We have heard quite a bit from Sons of Confederate Veterans over the past week in response to the debate over the Confederate flag on the state house grounds in Columbia, South Carolina and beyond....
View ArticleBlack Family Reclaims History From Sons of Confederate Veterans
This is an encouraging story. Over the past twenty years the Sons of Confederate Veterans has distorted the stories of African Americans who worked as impressed slaves for the military and camp...
View ArticleA Shrinking Confederate Universe
A quick thought. Tomorrow the local UDC and SCV chapters in Charleston, South Carolina will commemorate Confederate Memorial Day in Magnolia Cemetery. It’s a beautiful place that both evokes the scale...
View ArticleHouse Votes to Ban Confederate Battle Flags
By now most of you have heard that yesterday the House of Representatives voted to severely restrict the display of Confederate battle flags at VA cemeteries. The Senate still needs to vote, but there...
View Article*How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History*
Dedication of Confederate Monument at Arlington National Cemetery, 1914 There have been a number of short videos released that explore the history of Confederate monuments, but this one takes a step...
View ArticleUnited Daughters of the Confederacy and Lost Cause Go Viral
Who says millennials aren’t interested in history? Back in September, during the height of the Confederate monument debate, I was contacted by Coleman Lowndes, who works on making short videos for the...
View ArticleConfederate Monuments Still Stand…For Now
By now most of you have seen the photographs of the damage/tagging done to Confederate monuments throughout the country in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. In addition to...
View ArticleJefferson Davis Memorial Chair Returned as Toilet
Update: The chair has been returned undamaged. I certainly didn’t see this one coming. This week a group in Selma, Alabama turned a monument honoring Jefferson Davis into a toilet. Now there is a...
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