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Teaching the Lost Cause in South Carolina

Civil War Memory, Reconciliation, and Social Media: A Cautionary Tale

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to the Best Newsletter Subscribers Around

Interpreting the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery: A Conversation With Karen Cox

The Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery is Coming Down This Week

Grape & Canister

How Did the "Party of Lincoln" Become the Champions of the Confederacy?

How Republicans are Trying to Turn a Confederate Monument into a Symbol of Reconciliation

Open Thread Wednesday: Does It Matter How Robert Gould Shaw Died in Battle?

Grape & Canister

The Problem With Allendale, Michigan's Civil War Monument

"Keep a Clear Eye": Some Thoughts About Ron Maxwell's GETTYSBURG

Historians, Hollywood Movies, and Ridley Scott's NAPOLEON

The Final Days of the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery

Open Thread Sunday: Does Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" Still Matter?

Grape & Canister

Don't Change the Name of Faneuil Hall

The Racism of Robert Gould Shaw

Reflecting on Ron Maxwell's Movie GETTYSBURG Thirty Years Later

A Few of the Best Civil War Books of 2023

The Paternalism of Robert Gould Shaw

"You Will Follow and You Will Fire": Was Bass Reeves a Confederate Soldier?

How Not To Argue in Defense of Confederate Monuments by Marjorie Taylor Greene

Grape & Canister

Robert E. Lee's Final Meltdown

Open Thread Thursday: Your Own Personal Research Project

Alexandria, Virginia's City Council Takes a Clear Stand on Honoring the Confederacy

James Montgomery, the Burning of Darien, and the Innocence of Robert Gould Shaw

Talking History and Memory with Corporate Executives on the Boston Common

Grape & Canister

Civil War Movie Discussion Returns to Mark the 30th Anniversary of *Gettysburg*

A Plea for Critical Writing in the History Classroom

My Hopes for the Semiquincentennial

Grape & Canister

Open Thread Thursday: The Power of Place

Vacationing in a House that Enslaved People Built

A Tale of Two Plantation Tours

Following Robert Gould Shaw to the Very End

Robert Gould Shaw Helps to Rebuild Darien, GA After Burning it to the Ground

Finding a Common Humanity in the History and Memory of Beaufort, SC

Searching for Robert Gould Shaw's Final Resting Place

Robert Gould Shaw Goes To Church On the Fourth of July

Exploring History and Memory in Beaufort, SC

Open Thread Thursday: "The Research Trip That Isn't a Vacation"

The Lost Cause's Greatest Achievement

Grape & Canister

Charlotte County, VA Contextualizes Its Confederate Monument

Is the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery Headed to the New Market Battlefield?

Open Thread Thursday: Your Favorite Published Primary Source

James Longstreet, the Lost Cause, and the Original 'Cancel Culture'

Joshua L. Chamberlain and the Vagaries of Memory

Taking James Longstreet and Confederates Seriously

Open Thread Thursday: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Grape & Canister

Create Your Own Ken Burns Civil War Documentary

How Well Did Robert Gould Shaw Know the Men in the 54th Massachusetts?

Open Thread Thursday: Should Race Matter in Commissioning a Statue of Harriet Tubman?

History and Our Students Are 'Worth Fighting For'

"We Will March Through the South, Through the Heart of Dixie, the Way Sherman Did."

Grape & Canister

Open Thread Thursday: Has the Lost Cause Really Lost?

A Conversation With Jonathan White

Jim Webb Weighs In On the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery

Open Thread Thursday: Building a Civil War Library

Did Robert Gould Shaw's Mother Approve of His Fiancee?

Barbara Fields On What It Takes To Be a Historian

Grape & Canister

Robert E. Lee Has Not Been Canceled

Does Washington, D.C. Really Need Another Lincoln Statue?

Four Books About How African Americans Have Understood Lincoln and His Legacy

Open Thread Thursday: Interpreting an Iconic Gettysburg Photograph

Grape & Canister

What You Didn't Learn About the Battle of the Crater

Why Am I Confident About the Future? Because I Just Spent a Week With Teachers.

Interpreting the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery One Last Time

What Your History Teacher Did Last Summer

According to Florida's New History Standards, Rosa Parks Was an "Irresponsible" Citizen.

Some Thoughts About Florida's New History Standards and a New Poll About the Civil War

Remembering Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts on the 160th Anniversary of Battery Wagner

Remembering Colonel Robert Gould Shaw on the 160th Anniversary of His Death

African Americans Remember Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment

Remembering Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Open Thread Thursday: What Should We Watch Next?

No, the Confederacy Really Did Disappear.

Grape & Canister

Taking the Lost Cause Seriously

The Problem Isn't With Twitter or Its Many Imitations. The Problem is You.

Open Thread Thursday: Do You Suffer From Gettysburgitis?

The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in History, Memory, and Film: Selected Sources

"The Fourth of July is the First Great Fact in Your Nation’s History."

Monuments and Memory at Gettysburg: Another Way to Interpret the Pickett-Pettigrew Assault

Moses Didn't Serve the Confederacy. He Survived It

Grape & Canister

Chief Justice John Roberts Explains Why the Civil War Was Fought and Gets It Wrong

Open Thread Thursday: Does the Civil War Era Loom Too Large in Our National Discourse?

Museum of the American Revolution to Host Moms for Liberty Over Objections

The Challenge of Visiting Selma, Alabama

Titanic, Gettysburg, and the Lure of the Story

Grape & Canister

Open Thread Thursday

Critics to the Left of Me. Critics to the Right of Me

A Juneteenth For All Americans

Calls to Change the Name of Boston's Iconic Faneuil Hall are Misplaced

Grape & Canister

Making History at Gettysburg National Military Park

Otis: A Study in Five Photographs

Finding Common Ground With a Former Member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans

Watching a Master Battlefield Interpreter at Work

Why is the Museum of the American Revolution Hosting a Hate Group?

Open Thread Thursday: The Importance of Asking the Right Question

The Last Gasp of the Lost Cause Generation

Grape & Canister

Open Thread Thursday: So Many Lives Cut Short

The Fundamental Problem at Stone Mountain

A Reminder on this Memorial Day

Nikki Haley's Continued Problem With the Confederate Flag

Putting the Debate About Slavery and Statues In Its Proper Place

Open Thread Thursday: Your Own Battlefield Guide

Grape & Canister

Confederate Monuments, Union-Busting, and the Polarization of American History

Interpreting Petersburg National Battlefield: A Conversation With Emmanuel Dabney

Open Thread Thursday: My Dinner With Lincoln

Grape & Canister

"They Say that 'Uncle Abe' is on the Verge of Lunacy"

Speaking of Robert Gould Shaw...

Open Thread Thursday: Is There Such a Thing as a Definitive History?

A Mother and Son Debate Emancipation

Grape & Canister

Four Years Together in the Army of Northern Virginia

We "Don't Know Much About History" and Never Did

Open Thread Thursday: Your Questions

Barbara Fields on The 1619 Project

Today Stone Mountain Belongs to the Sons of Confederate Veterans

Open Thread Thursday: What Still Needs to Be Written?

Grape & Canister

Celebrating a Birthday and Our Shared Love of History

Episode 6: Five Books about Slavery and the Confederacy

Is Twitter Good For History?

Open Thread Thursday: Was Confederate Defeat Inevitable?

Robert E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Other Humorous Takes on the Civil War

When Confederate Monuments Go Up

Grape & Canister

Pocahontas Island, Virginia Has Lost Its Mayor

Interpreting Civil War Battlefields: A Conversation with Peter S. Carmichael

Interpreting Civil War Battlefields in the Trump Era

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott's Civil War Memory

Book Me

A New Book in the Works

Grape & Canister: Appomattox Surrender Edition

Tennessee Republicans Show Their True Colors

A Conversation with Ty Seidule

A Few Selections from "Silencing the Past"

When Will Academic Historians Stop Flogging Themselves Over This Issue?

We Need a New Language of Civil War Memory

I Want My Social Media Experience to be Boring

Trump Indicted and Resisting Predictions of Civil War

Episode 5

Questions for Ty Seidule

Mark Your Calendars for the Next Book Group Meeting

"How the Word is Passed"

Assuming the Worst in One Another

Watching a monument roll away on a flatbed truck is not tantamount to understanding history.

William Mahone, the Readjusters, and Virginia's Standards of Learning

Caption This

Interview with Candice Shy Hooper

Introducing Chat for Desktop

Grape & Canister

The Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery is Not a "Reconciliation Memorial"

Events

What If the Civil War Sesquicentennial Began Where It Ended

Remembering and Forgetting in the U.S. Army

Interpreting St. Paul's Episcopal Church's Confederate Windows

Interview With Christopher Graham

Fear and Hysteria Did Not Cause the Civil War

Is Gettysburg a Battlefield or Commemorative Landscape?

Building and Maintaining a Civil War Library

1-Year Anniversary Grape & Canister

Episode 4

Interview With Garry Adelman

What's in a Word: Language and the American Civil War

Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd on Nostalgia

'The People Who Destroyed My History Had Also Destroyed Their Own'

Charlottesville's Confederate monuments are gone, but we can still learn their history.

Grape & Canister

Helping Viola Davis Uncover Her Roots

Nikki Haley's Revisionist History of the Confederate Flag Debate in South Carolina

W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee

Augusta, Georgia's Monument to White Supremacy Still Stands

Date Set For First Meeting of Civil War Memory Book Group

A History Lesson for Kevin Seefried

Grape & Canister

Finding History At An Alabama Rest Stop

Interpreting Monuments in 'The Cradle of the Confederacy'

A Few Reflections About My Civil Rights Journey

A Civil Rights Journey

The Future of AP African American Studies Does Not Look Promising

Erasing Black History Has Always Been the Goal

Florida Rejects College Board's New Course in African American Studies

Grape & Canister

Why King-Lee Day in Alabama is a Distraction

Questioning the Archives

A Conversation With Hilary Green

Introducing the Civil War Memory Book Group and a New Film About Stone Mountain

Civil War Memory is Complicated

Episode 3

New Book Challenges American Myths and Raises a Few Questions

Grape & Canister

Episode 2

Is Memory of the Civil War Stronger in the South?

A Few Thoughts About Will Smith's New Movie, Emancipation