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Tag Archives: Robert E. Lee and Me
Echoes of Reconstruction: Roundup of Recent Books
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Many of us expanded our reading during the lonely days of the Pandemic by taking old books off the shelves to read anew. I just settled in with … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Memory, Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged Absalom, Adam Domby, book reviews, civil rights, Congress at War, Constant Lecorge, Edward Ball, Fergus Bordewich, Fred Ogden, Frederick Douglass, Kate Masur, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Life of a Klansman, Michael Gorra, New Orleans, Patrick Young, Reconstruction, Robert E. Lee and Me, Slavery, The False Cause, The Reconstruction Era Blog, The Sadddest Words, Ty Seidule, Until Justice Be Done, white supremacy, William Faulkner
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Lee and Jackson vs. the United States
Indulge me for a moment as I think out loud. I don’t have an answer to the question I’m about to pose, so I don’t have a position to state. I’m more interested in the conversation than the conclusion. A … Continue reading
Seidule’s Thesis on Lee: Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
I recently had the chance to read Ty Seidule’s new book Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause. As a Southerner, Seidule grew up in the shadow of Arlington Manor, immersed in … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Memory
Tagged Lost Cause, neo-Confederates, Robert E. Lee, Robert E. Lee and Me, treason, Ty Seidule
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