The group behind Confederate monuments also built a memorial to ...

The United Daughters of the Confederacy didn't just memorialize Confederate veterans. It also memorialized the Ku Klux Klan and shared its ...

I've studied the history of Confederate memorials. Here's what to do ...

It is hardly coincidence that the cluttering of the state's landscape with Confederate monuments coincided with two major national cultural ...

Confederate monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

Confederate monuments and memorials in the United States include public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders ...

Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy

That same year, Jefferson Davis laid the cornerstone of the Confederate Memorial Monument in a prominent spot on the state Capitol grounds in ...

'The lost cause': the women's group fighting for Confederate ...

Women leave a wreath in a monument honoring the Confederate dead in Shiloh, Mississippi, 1957. The monument was built by the United Daughters of ...

Confederate Statues Were Built To Further A 'White Supremacist ...

Groups like the Sons of Confederate Veterans defend the monuments, arguing they are an important part of history. One of the leaders of that ...

Memorialization of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause - Arlington ...

Lee's death in 1870 inspired former Confederates to begin creating memorials to Lee. As the news spread, families hung black cloth and ...

United Daughters of the Confederacy - Encyclopedia Virginia

Third, monument building by the UDC followed lock-step with Union memorialization efforts. For example, the most significant Union memorials in Washington, D.C. ...

Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History

According to Lecia Brooks of the Southern Poverty Law Center, placing these memorials on courthouse property, especially in the 1950s and '60s, ...

Confederate Memorial - Arlington National Cemetery

By the early 1900s, it had become tradition to establish a new section at Arlington for the dead from a particular war, followed by a commemorative monument. In ...

Black and white Southerners' views on Confederate memorials - PRRI

Many were built in the early 20th century, as a tribute to the “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy, and some were even dedicated in the 21st century ...

Confederate Monuments | The First Amendment Encyclopedia

Individuals are, of course, free under the First Amendment to construct memorials on private property. There is a large statue to Confederate ...

List of monuments erected by the United Daughters of ... - Wikipedia

"To the Confederate Soldiers who sacrificed their lives for a just cause this monument is loving (sic) dedicated by the Daughters of the Confederacy aided by ...

Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy (Third edition)

Confederate memorials also teach us about civic engagement, and how ordinary Americans have effectively challenged the pervasive and pernicious ...

The North's Role in Supplying the South with Confederate Monuments

The monument in Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina, erected in 1872, is a facsimile of the Union soldier appearing on a monument at ...

Public Confederate Markers in the United States - Ballard Brief - BYU

Inscribed with the words, “Lest we forget our Confederate dead,” this monument stands in front of a public building in Greensboro, Alabama. The ...

United Daughters of the Confederacy | Historical – Educational ...

To others, they simply represent a memorial to our forefathers who fought bravely during four years of war. These memorial statues and markers have been a part ...

Confederate monuments spark debate about history - ABC News

"Stone Mountain is intended to be a memorial to the sacrifices of the people of Georgia, in particular, but the South in general in the ...

Confederate Iconography in the 20th Century - Segregation in America

In Gatesville, North Carolina, a tall Confederate monument installed in 1915 was placed directly in front of the County Board of Elections building. South ...

Confederate Monuments - Virginia Center for Civil War Studies

This monument, on the grounds of the Botetourt County Courthouse in the small county town of Fincastle, names all the companies from Botetourt County that ...