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The Best of Civil War Memory in 2022
What Should Be Done With the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery
Remembering Southern Unionists
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Carol Reardon Explores the Battle of Gettysburg in History and Memory
A Confederate Soldier Confronts the Myth of the Loyal Slave
The Next Interpretive Challenge For Our Civil War Battlefields
Marking the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg
The Former Capital of the Confederacy Removes Its Last Confederate Monument
We Can End the History Wars If We Choose
The 'Fighting Rebels' of Northern Schools
The Lost Cause of the 'Fighting Rebels' of South Dade High School
The Folly of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (Continued)
The Perfect Holiday Gift For Your Neo-Confederate Uncle
How Slavery Almost Didn't End in 1865
The Most Persistent Myth About the Confederacy
The True Value of a Confederate Fifty Dollar Bill
The Best Holiday Gifts for the Civil War Enthusiast in Your Life
Coming Full Circle or Why I am Not Moving to Mastodon
Interpreting the Significance of Union One Name at a Time
Celebrating and Remembering on this Thanksgiving
'All the News That's Fit to Print' on the Back of Wallpaper
It's Time To Push Out Confederates From Gettysburg For Good
Moving to a Paid Subscription Model Explained
The Best Civil War Books of 2022
Reinterpretation at Stone Mountain Moves Forward
Comments Section to Go Premium
Virginia Can't Get Over Robert E. Lee
Show Me You've Lost the Fight Over Civil War Memory
Is There A Usable Past for History Teachers?
Are History Op-Eds Making Us Dumber?
When Two Enslaved Men in Chains Show Up at a Civil War Reenactment
What We Can Learn From Marjorie Taylor Greene's Visit to Chickamauga
A New Interpretive Panel at Gettysburg
Secretary of Defense Accepts All of Naming Commission's Recommendations
How the History of Reconstruction is Taught Has Always Mattered
No Preservation Without Interpretation
Robert Gould Shaw and the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
The Face of the Naming Commission
A Civil War Chaplain's Conversion
What the Civil War Generation Can Teach Us About the Memory of September 11
Interpreting Slavery and the Enslaved on a Civil War Battlefield
New Book Focuses on the Civilian Experience at the Battle of Antietam
About that Ku Klux Klan Marker at West Point
How I Learned to Embrace Presentism by Ignoring It
Naming Commission Releases Second Report
Relic Hunting on Civil War Battlefields and the Desecration of Human Remains
Reenacting the Civil War Like It's 1999
I benefited from your student loan and I am happy to help you pay part of it down
A Chapter in Virginia's History That Every Student Should Know
North Carolina Mayor Bulldozes Veterans Memorial
How Not To Use Social Media at a Historic Site
A Horrible Look for the American Historical Association
A Revolutionary Moment for the Confederacy Obscured by a Myth
What We Want and What We Need in Our History
How Many Letters Did Civil War Soldiers Write?
Where Have You Gone, David McCullough?
Farewell To a Great Historian and Teacher
Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery Likely to Be Removed
Youngkin Appointee Resigns from Board Over Lost Cause Comments
A Close Call That Eventually Came Calling
"Taking Ownership of the Civil War as Our War"
Robert Gould Shaw, John Brown, and the Danger of Reading Back Into the Past
Remembering the Battle of the Crater
Finding the American Story Between 1619 and 1776
Interpreting Slavery at Arlington House
No, We Are Not Headed Toward Civil War
Mixed Emotions in the U.S Capitol Building
The Limits of Reunion at the Dedication of the Lincoln Memorial
Interpreting the Confederate Memorial in Arlington
What Your History Teacher Did This Summer
Spending Millions to Interpret the Lost Cause
Will the Real Sam Watkins Please Stand Up
The Latest Addition to Statuary Hall
Caught Between Two Extreme Views of American History
The Lost Cause Isn't Just About Slavery
The Importance of Empathy in Historical Studies
Robert Gould Shaw's Last Fourth of July
Taking Confederate Lives Seriously
A Gettysburg Counterfactual That Matters
'The World the Slaves Made' in the Army of Northern Virginia
When Slavery Came to Gettysburg
Why Robert E. Lee Should Be Melted Down
Richmond's Valentine Museum Interprets Jefferson Davis Statue
A Civil War Monument Landscape That We Can All Embrace
'Confronting the Past Without Mercy'
Have We Abandoned the "Last Best Hope of Earth"?
We Are Not So Divided Over History Education
West Point's Robert E. Lee Problem
Rededicating the Shaw-54th Massachusetts Memorial for a New Generation
Reconstruction, Civil Rights, and a Warning From C. Vann Woodward
Massive Resistance Is Alive and Well in Shenandoah County, Virginia
Do We Really Need a New Civil War Documentary? (Part 4)
Teach American History as if Democracy Itself Were at Stake
Writing on Substack: Future Plans
Should You Watch Ken Burns's Civil War Documentary? (Part 3)
Conan O'Brien and Bob Odenkirk Have Some Fun With Civil War Reenacting
The Speech That Alexander Stephens Wanted to be Remembered For
Should You Watch Ken Burns's Civil War Documentary? (Part 2)
Should You Watch Ken Burns's Civil War Documentary? (Part 1)
A Moment in the Life of a Civil War Soldier
The Confederacy Confronts Its Worst Nightmare
Sons of Confederate Veterans Celebrate White Supremacy at the Foot of Stone Mountain
Is There Evidence of Black Loyalty to the Confederacy?
When the Grand Army of the Republic Rejected Ulysses S. Grant
Five Books About Ulysses S. Grant That You Should Read
Commemorating, Without Celebrating, Ulysses S. Grant's 200th Birthday
Does Anyone Still Mourn Confederate Dead?
New to the Civil War Memory Library, 04/24
Livingston, Tennessee's Black Mayor is a Member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
Meet the 2022 National Teacher of the Year
Black Mayor Declares April Confederate History Month
Key & Peele on the Lost Cause and Civil War Memory
Robert Gould Shaw, Emancipation, and the Contingency of War
What a Photograph Can Tell Us About Robert Gould Shaw and Slavery
Robert Gould Shaw and Comradeship in the Second Massachusetts Regiment
Mississippi Bans Critical Race Theory and Celebrates the Confederacy
The Best Books About Slavery and the Confederacy
Should Lincoln Have Let the South Go?
Imagining a Very Different Appomattox Surrender
The Crater Battlefield, the Power of Place, and Historical Memory
The Lost Cause Narrative is a Discredited View. We Should Treat It as Such.
A Future in Which There are No Confederate Monuments is Closer Than You Think
The Liberation of Richmond: April 3, 1865 to April 3, 2022
How the 1619 Project is Being Used in the Classroom and Why it Matters
Transforming Stone Mountain: A Memorial to the Confederacy and White Supremacy
Historic Tours, Ethical Responsibility, and the Challenge of Memory
About That Photograph of Mitch McConnell and the Confederate Flag
The "Cornerstone" of the Confederate Army Was Slavery
Are Ted Cruz's Children Being Indoctrinated With Critical Race Theory?
"Why Don't You Just Ignore Them?"
Would You Ask Students to Identify the "Positive Effects" of Slavery?
The War Over History Education is a Manufactured Crisis
A Call to Support New History Books and Their Authors
A Mock Slave Auction and the Limits of History Education
Can a Plaque Honoring Confederate Dead Be Contextualized?
The Fate of Confederate Monuments
#WomenAlsoKnowHistory: Who Have You Read Recently?
Interpreting Confederate Slaves on the Gettysburg Battlefield
Measuring Freedom During Reconstruction
"We Need to Get Back To Some Happier Times in This County."
Why We Should Teach Critical Race Theory
Is the History of Lynching in America a "Divisive Concept"?
An African-American Girl's View of Confederate Monuments
Teaching the Confederate Monuments Controversy
Reframing History For the People Who Need It the Most
Anna E. Dickinson on Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts
David McCullough on the Confederate Flag in 1993
Standing Up For History Education