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Robert E. Lee
confederate monuments
Jan. 5, 2022
By Christopher Bonanos
lost causes
Dec. 28, 2021
Famous Robert E. Lee Statue Time Capsule Found, for Real This Time It appears this is the official box, but the reported “picture of Lincoln lying in his coffin” still hasn’t turned up.
By Margaret Hartmann
historic disappointments
Dec. 23, 2021
Robert E. Lee Statue-Makers Troll Us Via Time Capsule What we were promised: an ultra-rare picture of Lincoln in his coffin. What we got: a soggy photo of some guy who was never even president.
By Margaret Hartmann
confederate monuments
May 21, 2021
Georgia Struggles With Its Giant Neo-Confederate Embarrassment Stacey Abrams wants to sandblast the carving of Confederate leaders on state-owned property. That probably won’t happen with Brian Kemp as governor.
By Ed Kilgore
confederate monuments
Apr. 1, 2021
Virginia Court Paves Way for Removal of Confederate Statues In Charlottesville It’s another blow to the neo-Confederate effort to promote white supremacy via exaltation of the Lost Cause.
By Ed Kilgore
capitol riot
Jan. 11, 2021
Could the 14th Amendment Ban Trump From Holding Office Again? Even if a Trump political comeback isn’t blocked by impeachment, his incitement to insurrection may make him subject to a ban meant for Confederates.
By Ed Kilgore
what’s past is prologue
June 19, 2020
What Will It Take to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday? The long struggle for Martin Luther King Jr. Day offers lessons that could ease the path to making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
By Ed Kilgore
Two More Neo-Confederate School Names Challenged in Virginia School officials resisting the NAACP suit tout history, but they’re the ones whitewashing the adoption of Confederate symbols to oppose civil rights.
By Ed Kilgore
Celebrate Racism! It’s Jefferson Davis’s Birthday in Alabama And yet you wonder why this state enacted an aggressively reactionary abortion law?
By Ed Kilgore
2018 elections
Aug. 17, 2018
Is Robert E. Lee a Hero? GOP Candidate’s Twitter Poll Isn’t Going as He Hoped Mississippi’s Chris McDaniel is sticking up for the Confederate general this week.
By Adam K. Raymond
No, Removing Monuments to Traitors Doesn’t Mean Removing Monuments to Founders Confederate monuments don’t embody American history; they were built on lies about American history.
By Ed Kilgore
John Kelly Is As Deluded About the Confederacy As Donald Trump Is The wise, gray head who is supposed to be restraining Donald Trump seems as reactionary as his boss is on key matters of history and culture.
By Ed Kilgore
Confederate Monuments Are Propaganda — Not History Memorials to the Confederacy were erected by advocates of white supremacy.
By Jonathan Chait
Trump’s Rehash of His Charlottesville Remarks Was Deceitful and Self-Destructive Nobody was surprised the president cut loose at a rally in Phoenix. But he showed he can’t drop his losing argument.
By Ed Kilgore
Confederates in the Capitol During the Jim Crow era, southern states sought recognition in the Capitol for ex-Confederates and other proud racists. That may finally be corrected.
By Ed Kilgore
Confederate Monuments Were Built to Change History, Not Preserve It A democracy that retains monuments to men who committed treason — in defense of slavery — is one that has changed its history, not learned from it.
By Eric Levitz
charlottesville
Aug. 16, 2017
By Margaret Hartmann
Robert E. Lee Monuments Are Symbols of Neo-Confederacy, Not the Confederacy Monuments that went up to celebrate the white supremacist triumph in successfully setting up Jim Crow should come down now.
By Ed Kilgore
Failing GOP Candidate in VA Shows Limits to Attacks on ‘Political Correctness’ Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Corey Stewart seems to have gone too far by running on the Confederacy.
By Ed Kilgore
