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Livingston, Tennessee's Black Mayor is a Member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
Earlier this week I shared the story of the Black Tennessee mayor who met with the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to sign a…
Kevin M. Levin
Apr 22, 2022
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Erasing Black History Has Always Been the Goal
Hundreds of Confederate monuments have been removed across the country since 2015. Up until now no community has given serious thought to reinstalling a…
Kevin M. Levin
Jan 24
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The Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery is Not a "Reconciliation Memorial"
Watch now (35 min) | Please let me know if you would like me to do more conversation videos like this. I intended to do a shorter presentation and I…
Kevin M. Levin
Mar 13
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W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee
In 1928 W.E.B. DuBois wrote this essay on the legacy of Robert E. Lee. I am not certain what prompted the essay, but it is a wonderful example of how…
Kevin M. Levin
Feb 14
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It's Time To Push Out Confederates From Gettysburg For Good
Imagine if one of the first things we acknowledged about the Confederate army, when it entered Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863, is that it included…
Kevin M. Levin
Nov 20, 2022
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A Horrible Look for the American Historical Association
What was the president of the American Historical Association thinking? On Tuesday James Sweet published what can only be described as a hit piece on…
Kevin M. Levin
Aug 19, 2022
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Should You Watch Ken Burns's Civil War Documentary? (Part 1)
The other day on twitter I was asked if it is worth watching Ken Burns’s documentary, The Civil War, which aired on PBS in 1990. In recent years, the…
Kevin M. Levin
May 6, 2022
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Virginia Can't Get Over Robert E. Lee
Monuments honoring Confederate general Robert E. Lee may have come down in Virginia, but the state board of education under Republican governor Glenn…
Kevin M. Levin
Nov 15, 2022
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A Confederate Soldier Confronts the Myth of the Loyal Slave
One of the projects that I hope to return to in the new year is the editing of the letters of Captain John Christopher Winsmith. This is one of the best…
Kevin M. Levin
Dec 19, 2022
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Helping Viola Davis Uncover Her Roots
I’ve worked with the research staff at PBS’s show Finding Your Roots on a number of occasions in which they needed help with family histories that…
Kevin M. Levin
Feb 18
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Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery Likely to Be Removed
This weekend I learned through the grapevine that the Congressional Commission, charged with all “Department of Defense items that commemorate the…
Kevin M. Levin
Aug 7, 2022
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A Conversation With Hilary Green
Watch now (60 min) | We discuss her current book project, which explores how African Americans have remembered and commemorated the Civil War era from…
Kevin M. Levin
Jan 14
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