Grape & Canister

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News

A Confederate monument in Milledgeville, Georgia was vandalized or tagged (depending on your perspective) this past week. The two soldiers were spray-painted black.

A statue of Abraham Lincoln in Chicago was also damaged and tagged on Thanksgiving Day with the words “Colonizer” and “Land Back.”

The Robeson County (NC) Board of Commissioners voted Monday to relocate the Confederate monument that stands atop the Robeson County Courthouse.

Montgomery Public Schools in Alabama’s capital city paid a $50,000 fine to remove names of Confederate leaders from two of its high schools, where the student body is more than 80 percent Black. Let that sink in for a minute.

And in Richmond, Virginia three schools will soon be renamed that honor Confederate leaders.

Last weekend a white supremacist group that calls itself the Save Southern Heritage group flew a banner with the message “Put Monuments Back” over TIAA Field, where the Jacksonville Jaguars play. All I can say is: Show me a Lost Cause.

Videos

Is Civil War History Being Re-Written?!?!?!?!?!

Think there is no Civil War history in Seattle? Try again.

Not a huge fan of this interview with Jonathan Horn, but you can check it out for yourself

New to the Civil War Memory Library

Erick Michael Burke, Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-1863 (Louisiana State University Press).

John Cimprich, Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South (Louisiana State University Press, 2022).

Amy Porter, Stephen Hanna… Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum (University Press of Georgia, 2022).

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunjipa, His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and The Struggle For Racial Justice (Viking, 2022).

Otis

I hope all of you had a pleasant Thanksgiving. This year we decided to spend the week in Quebec. As you might imagine, Otis thoroughly enjoyed the cold temperatures and snow.