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Statement by US Historians on Recently Released Confederate ...


One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed ...

... Civil War, people recently freed from ... Confederate soldiers who had died in the single bloodiest military conflict in American history.

Historians Have Said about the Causes of Disunion: A Civil War - jstor

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Organization of American Historians. ... American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Dir tions ...

Historian puts the push to remove Confederate statues in context

The police killing of George Floyd sparked widespread protests and reignited efforts across the US to remove Confederate and other statues viewed as symbols of ...

Union Success in the Civil War and Lessons for Strategic Leaders

At the war's outset, most of the Confederate leadership would have agreed with Jefferson Davis's statement that the South had gone to war to ...

Confederate Memorial - Arlington National Cemetery

1, 2024. For background and information on the process, please visit this page. Section 16. The history of the Confederate Memorial embodies the complex and ...

History As End, by Matthew Karp - Harper's Magazine

No doubt a deposit of pro-Confederate feeling remains, in some form, sedimented into the hard edges of the American right. At the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6 ...

About Expulsion - U.S. Senate

Of that number, 14 were expelled during the Civil War for supporting the Confederacy. In several other cases, the Senate considered expulsion but either dropped ...

Milestone Documents | National Archives

The primary source documents on this page highlight pivotal moments in the course of American history or government. They are some of the ...

Lost Cause - 64 Parishes

The myth of the Lost Cause gave former Confederates a narrative for coping with the psychic trauma of defeat after the Civil War. Roughly 18 ...

Why Confederate Lies Live On - The Atlantic

These heads represent the rebels in the largest slave revolt in American history, which took place not far from here in 1811. Within 48 hours, ...

Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation | Articles and Essays

In May 1861, just a month into the war, three slaves (Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory, and James Townsend) owned by Confederate Colonel Charles K. Mallory escaped ...

Abraham Lincoln | The White House

Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the ...

The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth ...

When South Carolina seceded, it published “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.” ...

Opinion | Why Was It So Hard for Nikki Haley to Say "Slavery"? Civil ...

Even Confederate veterans like Hunter McGuire knew that to admit the war had been about slavery would “hold us degraded rather than worthy of ...

It's Time To Tell the Truth About the Confederacy and its Symbols

Confederate heroes and the battle flag they fought under were willing, as John C. Calhoun wrote, “to drench the country in blood” to maintain ...

Civil War and Reconstruction - Florida Department of State

While Union forces occupied many coastal towns and forts, the interior of the state remained in Confederate hands. Florida provided an estimated 15,000 troops ...

8 recent Civil War history books by UVA authors - VIRGINIA Magazine

Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox (2021) By Caroline E. · American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873 (2024) · The ...

A former Confederate officer on slavery and the Civil War, 1907

Grant and joined the Republican Party, but firmly stated, “I am not ashamed of having fought on the side of slavery – a soldier fights for his country – right ...

Confederate History - History and Social Justice - Tougaloo College

Since the formation of the U.S., surely the most important thing to happen to it was our Civil War. However, until at least 2010, most Americans did not grasp ...

American History: The Civil War and Reconstruction: Key Events ...

Only high rank Confederates such as army officers and government officials would be exept from a full pardon for their role in the conflict. The ...