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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…

Apr 22, 2022

Hundreds of Confederate monuments have been removed across the country since 2015. Up until now no community has given serious thought to reinstalling a…

Jan 24

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…

Mar 13

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…

Feb 14

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…

Nov 20, 2022

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…

Aug 19, 2022

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…

May 6, 2022

Monuments honoring Confederate general Robert E. Lee may have come down in Virginia, but the state board of education under Republican governor Glenn…

Nov 15, 2022

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…

Dec 19, 2022

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…

Feb 18

This weekend I learned through the grapevine that the Congressional Commission, charged with all “Department of Defense items that commemorate the…

Aug 7, 2022

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…

Jan 14

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