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Statement by US Historians on Recently Released Confederate ...
Statement by US Historians on Recently Released Confederate ...
Ideally, we believe this monument should be removed from campus entirely, given its explicitly white supremacist origins. But if it remains on ...
AHA Statement on Confederate Monuments
To remove such monuments is neither to “change” history nor “erase” it. What changes with such removals is what American communities decide is ...
SAH Statement on The Removal of Monuments to the Confederacy ...
By leaving them in place, we allow the dead hand of the past to direct some Americans away from that which belongs to all of us. History has ...
Historian and Expert on American South, Confederate Monuments ...
Advocates for removal of these physical symbols of the Confederacy see them as reminders of that painful legacy of racial oppression, while ...
National Trust for Historic Preservation Statement on Confederate ...
And their history needs not end with their removal: we support relocation of these monuments to museums or other places where they may be ...
Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American ...
Activists have long argued that Confederate memorializations are hateful, that they represent violence and intimidation, and that they are ...
The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States
Our Northern confederates, after a full and calm hearing of all the facts, after a fair warning of our purpose not to submit to the rule of the authors of all ...
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, ...
Brief amici curiae of American Historians - Supreme Court
the Confederate States of America, and elected. Jefferson Davis ... violent campaign to reduce newly freed Black. Americans, as one Union ...
Shenandoah County School Board ignores true U.S. history
After the war, former Confederates attempted to erase the history of the Civil War as a struggle between slavery and a “new birth of freedom.” ...
The Costs of the Confederacy - Smithsonian Magazine
Finally, Confederate monuments aren't just heirlooms, the artifacts of a bygone era. Instead, American taxpayers are still heavily investing in these tributes ...
slaveholding republic, must now remind us that Confederate defeat brought freedom, however imperfect, to millions of people. We welcome the opportunity to ...
Preventing Diplomatic Recognition of the Confederacy, 1861–1865
One of the most important victories won by the United States during the Civil War was not ever fought on a battlefield. Rather, it was a series of diplomatic ...
Rewriting History - How the South Won the Textbook War
If history is written by the victors, then post-Civil War America is a rare exception to the rule, says Chara Bohan, professor of educational ...
The Big Picture: Confederate Revisionist History - Public Books
In reality, the Confederacy was simply a treasonous revolt undertaken in defense of slavery. At the time of secession, the US Constitution did ...
The Lost Cause - Encyclopedia Virginia
The Lost Cause is an interpretation of the American Civil War (1861–1865) that seeks to present the war from the perspective of Confederates and in the best ...
Lost Cause of the Confederacy - Wikipedia
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is an American pseudohistorical and historical negationist myth that claims the cause of the Confederate States during the ...
How Confederate propaganda ended up in the South's schoolbooks
There they were subjected to the alternative reality of the Lost Cause, a false version of U.S. history developed in response to Reconstruction ...
Cornerstone Speech | American Battlefield Trust
The taxable property of the Confederate States cannot be less than twenty-two hundred millions of dollars! This, I think I venture but little in saying, may be ...
Historian Eric Foner On The 'Unresolved Legacy Of Reconstruction'
And those at the top of society are there because they're the superior ones. And those at the bottom, it's just nature that's put them there, ...