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Tag Archives: Confederate monuments
On Monuments, America Must Never Surrender to Confederates, Old or New (part three)
part three of four ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Frank J. Scaturro. Frank is president of the Grant Monument Association and the author of President Grant Reconsidered and The Supreme Court’s Retreat from Reconstruction. He is currently writing a book … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, Reconstruction
Tagged 1619 Project, Alexander Stephens, Bill de Blasio, Confederate monuments, Cornerstone Speech, Dred Scott Decision, Dunning School, Frank J. Scaturro, Frederick Douglass, I Have a Dream speech, Jamelle Bouie, Juneteenth, Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr., Monuments, Nikole Hannah-Jones, On-Monuments-Never-Surrender-to-Confederates, racisim, Reconstruction, Roger B. Taney, Teddy Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson
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On Monuments, America Must Never Surrender to Confederates, Old or New (part two)
part two of four ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Frank J. Scaturro. Frank is president of the Grant Monument Association and the author of President Grant Reconsidered and The Supreme Court’s Retreat from Reconstruction. He is currently writing a book … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, Reconstruction
Tagged Amos Akerman, Battle of Liberty Place, Confederate Flag, Confederate monuments, Counter Reconstruction, Dukes of Hazzard, Edward White, Emancipation Memorial, Frank J. Scaturro, Hamburg Massacre, Jim Crow, King George III statue, KKK, Lost Cause, military bases, Nancy Pelosi, On-Monuments-Never-Surrender-to-Confederates
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A Comment on Civil War Monuments
Recent events have raised questions about the preservation of Civil War sites and monuments on National Park battlefields. As some of my Emerging Civil War colleagues and I discussed these potential threats, we decided it was important to say something. … Continue reading
History vs. Memory: Statues of Stonewall Offer a Lesson
Do we erase history when we take down a statue? That’s a question at the core of recent debate concerning Confederate monuments. Personally, I’m not convinced we do, but I do know we erase memory. However, the distinction between “memory” … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
Posted in Monuments, Ties to the War
Tagged Confederate monuments, current events, military bases
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Ursula Le Guin, Huckleberry Finn, and Monument Controversies
In class last week, I was talking with my writing students about assumptions we, as writers, sometimes make about our audiences. (Moral of the story: We, as writers, should not make assumptions about our readers.) For the day’s reading, I … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Memory, Monuments
Tagged Confederate monuments, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, monumental-discussion, Monuments, Ursula Le Guin
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John William Jones: The “Fighting Parson” Remembers The War
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author Christopher Martin. Events of recent years have drawn attention to the many Confederate monuments across the county. Immense debate and controversy surrounds many of them, with many people curious of the memory of the … Continue reading
2018 Year in Review: #4
We’ve reached #4 on our countdown of the top ten most-read posts of 2018. The story involved vandalism against Confederate monuments on the Wilderness battlefield: 4) The Wrongheaded Righteousness of Spray Paint by Chris Mackowski (May 31, 2018) “There is … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, Year in Review
Tagged Confederate heritage, Confederate monuments, wilderness, Year in Review 2018
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Preservation News: Conference on Preservation & Monuments
Oftentimes we think of preservation in the sense of saving battlefield land or preserving an important artifact or archival material. However, perhaps we can also see preservation of markers or monuments as important task. Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation recently hosted … Continue reading
Year In Review 2017: #8
Emerging Civil War’s editor-in-chief shared his thoughts about the Confederate monuments discussion in the series A Monumental Discussion. His observations and conclusions provided helpful insights to many readers and ranked this post #8 in ECW’s most-read posts of 2017.
