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A Monumental Discussion: Sarah Kay Bierle
Ever played the ice-breaker game “Two Truths & A Lie?” The concept is that everyone makes three statements (usually about themselves) and the others have to guess which are true and which is a lie. Now, let’s be clear, I believe honesty is one of the best character qualities and would never condone lying. Maybe […]
Read more...A Monumental Discussion: Julie Mujic
As the events in Charlottesville were taking place, I finished reading a new book by Washington Post journalist Steven Levingston called Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights. Levingston offers a chronological narrative focused on the evolution of President John F. Kennedy’s views on civil rights, as interpreted and […]
Read more...A Monumental Discussion: James Broomall
The current discussion about the removal of Confederate monuments has been largely framed around oppositional views. Social media has democratized a national discussion, which is a good thing, but has also filled Facebook, Twitter, and other fora with a range of deeply emotional reactions to the removal or maintenance of statues to former Confederate leaders […]
Read more...A Monumental Discussion: Brian Matthew Jordan
by Brian Matthew Jordan With remarkable speed, Confederate monuments are vanishing from public spaces around the country. In New Orleans, an empty pedestal now caps the sixty-foot column that once supported a defiant Robert Edward Lee. A jackhammer took up the monument that the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected at the dawn of the […]
Read more...A Monumental Discussion: An Introduction
Introduction to a Series I was accosted at the office this week by one of my wife’s employees. “Hank,” as I’ll call him, is a sixty-something good ol’ boy with a mane of white hair and a shock of moustache that, in older times, might have earned him the honorific title “Colonel.” I could see […]
Read more...A Monumental Controversy
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Jon-Erik Gilot The past few weeks have renewed a discussion – or shouting match – relating to the place and context of both Confederate and historical iconography currently dotting our parks and cityscapes. While this conversation has exploded following the tragic events in Charlottesville, it has […]
Read more...Martin Luther King Jr. Day – From The Archives
We hope you’ve had a safe and relaxed holiday weekend. In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, here are a few posts from previous years with ties to the Civil War: Civil War, Civil Rights, and Thoughts on the MLK National Memorial Reflections on the Emancipation Proclamation From Civil War to Civil Rights, and […]
Read more...Resources Related to This Week’s Headlines
Confederate culture—and what, if anything, to do about it—has dominated headlines this past week. I wanted to wrap up our Sunday with a hodge-podge of stuff, some serious and some not-so-much, that might provide readers with additional food for thought. I’ll start with a meme that I’m sure many folks have seen on Facebook this […]
Read more...History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
(Editor’s Note: For more context on monuments, see our 2017 series “A Monumental Discussion“) Most Civil War buffs by now have probably heard the news that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced on Thursday the planned removal of the Robert E. Lee’s statue from Monument Avenue in Richmond. Meanwhile, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, the city removed a […]
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