| 单词 | Confederacy |
| 例句 | “You don’t let me talk to any women again, of any size, at least until we get out of the Confederacy. These guys have all got guns down here. You promise?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z If Booth talked, too, he might reveal valuable information that implicated the highest officials in the Confederacy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Another solution would be to become farmers, like the people of the Iroquois Confederacy who once lived here. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was during this time that the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was added as a holiday in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One operative he met in Canada gave Booth letters of introduction vouching for the actor’s devotion to the Confederacy and requesting aid for him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Out front flew two flags: the Stars and Stripes of the United States and the Stars and Bars, the battle flag of the Confederacy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Maryland, although it did not secede from the Union and join the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War, remained a hotbed of secessionists. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth and his conspirators had to be caught before they vanished into the Deep South, where they would find aid and comfort in the heart of the Confederacy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The town’s new status may have struck many Southerners as ironic, for in the years immediately following the Civil War, Durham was known chiefly as the site of one of the Confederacy’s final humiliations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He transported the Confederate mail between the two states and sent south fresh Union newspapers that provided information valuable to the Confederacy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The case involved Indiana citizens convicted by a military tribunal of conspiring to aid the Confederacy during the war. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Miss Anderson is a widow, and even though her husband died in the War between the States—fighting for the Confederacy, no doubt—she still wears her widows weeds. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z As late as January 1865, with the Confederacy in danger of collapse at any moment, not one of the conspiracies resulted in serious action against Abraham Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he briefly owned one slave, Duke was not known as a supporter of slavery, but in late 1863, when Duke was in his forties, the Confederacy began drafting men his age. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Jamestown colony was built on Chesapeake Bay, at the edge of the Powhatan Confederacy homelands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Look, it’s just a little piece of river; once we take that, it’s like Shad told me—the Confederacy will be cut in two.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The capture of Richmond by Union troops would be a powerful symbolic victory, telling everyone that the end of the Confederacy was near. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But there is no longer a Confederacy, no longer a kidnapping plot, no longer a need for a boat, and certainly no longer a need for a smuggler—at least in Atzerodt’s mind. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z His wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, has relatives fighting for the Confederacy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if you remember how the film we saw at the Petersburg Battlefield ended as though the fall of the Confederacy were the onset of a tragedy, not jubilee. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z By time I came along, most everybody in Banks County thought General Tweedy had been a high monkity-monk in the Army of the Confederacy instead of just in the home guard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Since President Lincoln refused to officially recognize the Confederacy, the stars remained. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Capturing Lee’s army is of the utmost importance, but both Grant and Lincoln also believe that a Confederacy without a capital is a doomsday scenario for the rebels. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z John Wilkes Booth saw all of this—the grand illumination, the crowds delirious with joy, the insults to the fallen Confederacy and her leaders. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason for this is that the Confederacy usually named its battles after the town that served as the army general’s headquarters. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Their survival depended on ongoing diplomatic conversations between Wahunsonacock, the leader of the Powhatan Confederacy, and John Smith, leader of the Jamestown colony. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He put together a harebrained scheme to kidnap President Lincoln, take him to Richmond, and hold him as a hostage for the Confederacy, in an effort to help win the war for the South. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Democrats were popular among White southerners because the party had pushed for leniency toward the Confederacy and had supported efforts to deny former slaves the vote. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The Muscogee, or Creek, Confederacy included a number of Indigenous nations with homelands that covered much of present-day Georgia, Alabama, and parts of northern Florida. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Booth and his coconspirators, all of whom sympathized with the Confederacy, planned to assassinate others in a simultaneous attack that evening. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Like the nations of the Powhatan Confederacy, the Pequots and their diplomatic allies spoke closely related Algonquian languages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Reflect what it would be like to be a soldier in the Confederacy during the beginning, middle, and end of the Civil War. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z His victory at Harpers Ferry, the greatest triumph for the Confederacy in the Civil War, was almost entirely because for once he followed the instructions of Robert E. Lee. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederacy. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In late 1864 and early 1865, Booth organized his own little band of conspirators, loyal to him and not the Confederacy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson’s version led directly to the doctrine of “popular sovereignty” embraced by Stephen Douglas, to the states’ rights position of John C. Calhoun and then the Confederacy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A block away was the state capitol, adorned with three banners: the American flag, the white and red state flag of Alabama, and the battle flag of the Confederacy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Four years of loyal, dangerous service to the Confederacy had proved that. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, sometimes referred to as the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, developed in what is now the northeastern part of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z That would, they hoped, incite the Confederacy to continue the war against the Union. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in 1622, the Powhatan Confederacy attacked several new settlements and killed nearly three hundred fifty people—about a third of the settler population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z John Carter flees the broken Confederacy for Mars. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z His family never forgave the Confederacy for not marking his grave. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It’s worth noting that even after the Southern states left to form the Confederacy, stars indicating their states were not removed from the Union flag. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z After that, land forces had captured three forts guarding the city of Mobile, which meant that the Confederacy had lost its most essential port on the Gulf of Mexico. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The Powhatan Confederacy was an alliance of more than thirty Algonquian-speaking tribes. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The Confederacy, though dying, is not yet dead. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z And whereas most other historically black schools were scattered like forts in the great wilderness of the old Confederacy, Howard was in Washington, D.C.— Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Black Thursday of the Confederacy has arrived. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Booth’s meeting with Davis’s men not only provided funding for his conspiracy, it forged a direct bond between himself and the Confederacy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Rosser leads his weary men back toward Rice’s Station, content in the knowledge that he has single-handedly saved the Confederacy—for the moment. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Lee had 61,000 men in his army and was assisted by another of the Confederacy’s legendary commanders, Stonewall Jackson. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Night falls, and so ends what will come to be known as the Black Thursday of the Confederacy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Jones’s service to the Confederacy had cost him a great deal. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Stars and Bars that people regard today as the national symbol of the Confederacy is actually a battle c , „ , flag that was used by Confederate armies, not an off!- Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Dixie,” he told his son, was a word tied to the antebellum South, the cruelties of slavery, the Confederacy and other “traumatic things.” How one pocket of Utah is confronting the word ‘Dixie’ and all of its associations 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z When the Confederacy lived, ordinary Southerners distinguished between themselves and the wealthy and well-connected Confederates waging war to maintain slavery. Ibram X. Kendi Likes to Read at Bedtime 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z In any word-association game, you will invariably find that the words "Tom Cruise" are followed by "Xenu, dictator of the Galactic Confederacy." Two men. One dream 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z The Union never recognized the Confederacy as a separate nation. National Archives puts Civil War vaults on display 2010-04-27T22:35:00Z The fact that Abel fights for the Confederacy is mere detail. 'Wilderness': from the fog of war to the Olympic Peninsula 2012-09-07T23:57:19Z Or when he celebrated the Confederacy and denigrated Black people? Kanye West proved white lives matter. Now what? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Congress also created a Joint Committee on Reconstruction to investigate conditions in the former Confederacy. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z In the back story of “Black America,” the Confederacy was defeated. Amazon’s ‘Black America’ Imagines a New Nation in the South 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z I’m talking of course about Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. On ‘S.N.L.,’ Biden Urges Covid-Weary Nation to Stop Seeing ‘Spider-Man’ 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z The comparison, she added, also “misapprehends the moral problem with the Confederacy.” Historians Question Trump’s Comments on Confederate Monuments 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Three decades later, when the Lincoln administration threatened slaveholders, the Cherokee Nation signed allegiance with the Confederacy. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z When the threat of an alliance between France and the Confederacy was dashed, Napoleon withdrew his support and in 1867 Maximilian was executed by Mexican troops. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Ninety percent of the six hundred students enrolled at the university in 1860 would eventually fight on the side of the Confederacy. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z “Father Comes Home From the Wars” superimposes Homer’s “Odyssey” on the tale of a Black man who buys his freedom by fighting for the Confederacy. Review: In ‘The Harder They Come,’ Innocence Lost to a Reggae Beat 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z By Feb. 1, 1861, even before Lincoln took office in March, seven states had formed the Confederacy. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Neither work celebrated the Confederacy or slavery, however, and both were created as art rather than as public memorials like some of the statues now being removed. Trump Aside, Artists and Preservationists Debate the Rush to Topple Statues 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z At the University of Texas, Austin, a public statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was reportedly vandalized this week with the words "Black Lives Matter" and "Bump the Chumps." Jefferson Memorial, Confederate statues enter national race debate 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The United Daughters of the Confederacy were responsible for airbrushing Confederate history and erecting monuments to the civil war in the 20th century. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z European observers showed no such hesitancy, nor did the Confederacy. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z All of a sudden, people started talking about the Confederacy in America in a way they haven’t before. Quentin Tarantino says 'it's about damn time' US discussed its racist past 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Military Academy at West Point, utterly rejects this reductionist view of Grant as well as all the romantic hooey still surrounding Lee and the Confederacy. Review | Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z As the Confederacy lurches toward defeat, the group’s numbers increase, drawing other deserters, runaway slaves, and farmers reduced to penury, and Newton turns the band into an effective fighting force. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The Daughters of the Confederacy rode in carriages while veterans of the "Lost Cause" performed drills and marched in a parade. Black voters in West Virginia are tired of being invisible 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Florida has largely escaped the opprobrium heaped on the other states of the old Confederacy, but it’s to the Sunshine State that King returns with a story of mind-boggling racism and cruelty. How a Racist Sheriff Railroaded a Disabled Teenager and Got Off 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z In its final chapters, Gorra compares America’s monuments to the Confederacy with Germany’s memorials to the Holocaust. The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z In addition to owning slaves, they supported the Whigs and became ardent supporters of the Confederacy, sending two of their sons to fight in the Civil War. ‘Inseparable’ Finds Pride, Indignity and Irony in the Lives of Siamese Twins Chang and Eng 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z He’s just received word that his only son, who enlisted with the Confederacy, was killed in the final weeks of battle. Review | Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, ‘The Sweetness of Water,’ is a miraculous debut 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z That’s so the narrative will remain “centered around the humanity of black people whose lives were torn apart by the Confederacy,” Schmidt said in an interview. Two women lead a free tour of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments each month. A new website lets everyone listen. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z She discovered that Indians held slaves, with some for this reason siding with the Confederacy during the Civil War. Annette Gordon-Reed’s Surprising Recollections of Texas 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Today it would be where it belongs, up among the 20th century’s lemony comic classics, novels that range from “Lucky Jim” and “Cold Comfort Farm” to “Catch-22” and “A Confederacy of Dunces.” Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z No figure is more closely tied to our notions of the Confederacy than Robert E. Lee, and Freeman’s epic biography, first published in four volumes in the mid-1930s, remains the fullest portrait. Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z A spokesman for the city of Alexandria is not aware of any offers to buy a statue of a Confederate soldier that was recently removed by its owners, the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Why a Russian billionaire wants to buy controversial statues that were taken down 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z You say that Americans outside the state have often mistaken its rhetoric about independence as an echo of the Confederacy, but that they’re wrong to do so. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Erica Grieder on What America Can Learn From Texas 2013-05-01T14:00:56Z The Confederacy may have fallen, but as the Lost Cause it inspired, among other things, "Gone With the Wind." 'A Kingdom Strange': A new look at the Lost Colony of Roanoke 2010-04-28T23:50:00Z In addition to “Shoeless Joe,” Mr. Kinsella wrote other novels in that genre, including “The Iowa Baseball Confederacy,” “Magic Time,” “If Wishes Were Horses” and “Butterfly Winter.” W.P. Kinsella, Author of ‘Shoeless Joe,’ Dies at 81 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z This new biography complicates the legacy of Benjamin, a 19th-century New Orleans lawyer and one of the first Jewish senators in America, who used his nimble legal mind to defend slavery and the Confederacy. Newly Published, From the Extraterrestrial to East Jersey State Prison 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Both series will land in an America that seems as racially divided as ever, where symbols of the Confederacy are still the subject of headlines. Amazon’s ‘Black America’ Imagines a New Nation in the South 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis, the man who would eventually become the Confederacy's first and only president, was originally a senator from Mississippi who opposed early calls for secession. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Below, Kreitner talks about how the history of “disunion” includes much more than the Confederacy, why Brooklyn’s most famous park embodies the country’s tenuous unity and more. A New Look at the Often Barely United States 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Thompson drops in on a Children of the Confederacy convention, to observe genteel racism of a fading sort. Books of The Times: ‘The New Mind of the South,’ by Tracy Thompson 2013-04-23T17:04:03Z At the age of eight, I watched my entire hometown transform into a battleground over race, history and the Confederacy. My hometown Confederate war 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Southern values revived Topics: Colin Woodard, Michael Lind, , Religious Right This photo provided by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles shows the design of a proposed Sons of the Confederacy license plate. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z Ms. Browder said, pointing to the windows of Mr. Moore’s Foundation for Moral Law, in a building that once housed the bank that funded the Confederacy. In Montgomery, a City Embedded With Pain, Finding Progress 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The statue, a 21-foot bronze equestrian sculpture that sits atop a pedestal nearly twice that tall, has towered above a prominent residential boulevard named Monument Avenue since 1890 in this former capital of the Confederacy. Huge statue of Confederate Robert E. Lee taken down in Virginia’s capital 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z To witness white people, a mere 40-minute drive from Chicago, claim the Confederacy as part of their story is to measure the heights of absurdity. My hometown Confederate war 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Constitution and the Constitution of the Confederacy demonstrates their remarkable similarity, he said, except for a reference to God, a six-year presidency and an explicit right to hold slaves as property. National Archives puts Civil War vaults on display 2010-04-27T22:35:00Z In 1909, he contributed funds to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for a monument in Wilmington, N.C., honoring George Davis, the attorney general of the Confederate States. In Baltimore, the Walters Art Museum confronts the Confederate history of its founders 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Stuart, and its ties to the “Lost Cause,” the ideology surrounding the belief that the cause of the Confederacy during the Civil War was a just, heroic one. As Confederate monument debate continues, Kehinde Wiley’s new statue challenges the heroic narrative 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Portraits remain of the Gracie family, which built the house in the 1790s, and whose descendants eventually supported the Confederacy. Gracie Mansion Updates Its Art With Diversity 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The Dukes fly the Confederate flag, the setup assures us, but they’re outside any negative ideas you have about the Confederacy. What Did The Dukes of Hazzard Really Say About the South? 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The flags of the Confederacy were, therefore, symbols of resistance to this violation. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z But other, darker outcomes are definitely possible, and I suspect that as long as we’ve got a country, the Confederacy will still be with us. Welcome to the new Civil War 2013-01-05T16:30:00Z Everyone knows about the Confederacy, and we assume that’s all there is to say about secessionism in American history. A New Look at the Often Barely United States 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z History is also prismatically revealed in Zachary Treitz’s 2015 drama, “Men Go to Battle,” set in a corner of Kentucky that didn’t join the Confederacy and remained loyal to the Union. What to Stream This Weekend 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z The city of 200,000 is still trying to come to terms with its identity as both the “cradle of the Confederacy” and “birthplace of the civil rights movement.” The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z His album is entitled “7,” a reference to the Seventh Generation philosophy originating in the Iroquois Confederacy that all Native people strive to live by. Fighting the power and speaking for the earth: The explosion of Native American hip-hop 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Richard Rubin is the author of “The Last of the Doughboys” and “Back Over There,” as well as a book about Mississippi, “Confederacy of Silence.” The Freedom Trail in Mississippi Is a Chronicle of Outrage and Courage 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z But for those interested in learning more about the Confederacy — its people, its soldiers, its descendants — these five books offer a start: Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s not fun — and potentially offensive — to imagine a world in which the Confederacy won and slavery persisted. With “Confederate,” “Game of Thrones” creators have a lot more at stake than you 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Her husband’s career places Varina — or V as friends and family call her — at the center of events and conditions leading to the shaky rise and catastrophic fall of the Confederacy. Review | 20 years after ‘Cold Mountain,’ Charles Frazier is hot again 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z What if a group of time-traveling white supremacists from South Africa gave Robert E. Lee’s troops AK-47 assault rifles to help the Confederacy win the Civil War? Books of The Times: With a Few Tweaks, Shaking Up History 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z The council has set up a survey page to seek feedback about removing this roadway memorial to a loser Confederacy president and his treasonous effort to break up the country. I’d rather drive on Highway McHighwayface than another Jefferson Davis Highway 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z These tensions have played out symbolically in skirmishes over the fate of historical monuments, specifically public sculptures memorializing the Confederacy. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z A flag of American origin also appears in several pictures in Andrea Limauro’s Culture House show — not the stars and stripes, but the best-known version of the many banners of the Confederacy. Review | In the galleries: Black women artists collaborate on innovative book project 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Throughout the book, you identify these concepts that are almost mythic about Florida — hurricanes, crocodiles, the Confederacy, Christianity. "Florida hasn't always been the weird state": Florida Man pens book reframing the Sunshine State 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z In some ways the Confederacy appears as a distorted mirror image of the North. Exhibition Review: ?Discovering the Civil War? at National Archives 2010-04-29T21:21:00Z Colman Domingo performs "The Proclamation And a Negro Army," Douglass' 1863 response to the Emancipation Proclamation calling for Lincoln to allow Black soldiers to join fight against the Confederacy. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Thus did “the id and superego of the descendants of the Confederacy enter together the mainstream of American political and cultural life.” Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Others consider them rallying points for the sort of racism that fueled the Confederacy. The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z “The Big Lie” argues, in effect, that modern-day liberalism is a not-so-distant relative of fascism, Nazism and the Confederacy. 'The Once And Future Liberal' is a blistering critique of identity politics and a fractured left 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z But I live in a region of the country in the United States where the landscape is littered with the iconography of the Confederacy. The author of ‘Just Mercy’ says we’ve made talking about race political — and that has to change 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Sherman’s Union Army had set out to cripple the Confederacy by destroying Georgia’s agricultural and economic infrastructure — to “devour the land.” Review | Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z After the civil war, it became the prevailing way to represent the Confederacy, initially in the context of military history and memorials. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z The men — Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory and James Townsend — were field hands, forced by the Confederacy to build an artillery emplacement at Sewell’s Point. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Since 1919, it had stood along Monument Avenue, a thoroughfare studded with homages to leaders of the Confederacy. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Both the Union and the Confederacy eagerly sought foreign support and funding. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The steamboat was carrying supplies for the Confederacy, and as it began to take Federal fire, young Church decided to forgo capture by the Yankees and sailed over the side, swimming to the Confederate shore. On a Memphis street, a microcosm of American culture 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Coe and Williams, the country group Alabama and rockers like Lynyrd Skynyrd all used the flag on stage or in merchandise or referenced the flag or the Confederacy in their lyrics. Country Music Acts Quietly Abandon Confederate Flag 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Army, ironically playing an important role in the eventual defeat of Davis' Confederacy. 'Freedom's Cap': the U.S. Capitol's big remodel 2012-03-01T00:10:08Z They ignore the fact that most were built 50 years after the war, when the children of the Confederacy were creating the myth of a noble lost cause. Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The University of the District of Columbia shares UDC with the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Utah Department of Corrections. One NRA fights for guns. One for restaurants. Yes, D.C. has abbreviation overload. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z I spent a lot of time reading; everything from Wuthering Heights to Catch-22 to A Confederacy of Dunces, and listening to Bowie records. Boy George: 'Jail's like school but you can't leave' 2010-10-12T20:45:00Z But there have also been myriad forgettable “what if” novels about Hitler winning World War II or the Confederacy defeating the North. In ‘Rodham,’ Curtis Sittenfeld Reimagines Hillary’s Life 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The hero of this tale is Newton Knight, a poor farmer from Jones County, Miss., who led a guerrilla army of white deserters and escaped slaves against the Confederacy during the war. Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Frank Dawson fought for the Confederacy; his wife Sarah’s family owned slaves. Review | A book about the Civil War that speaks to our times, too 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Brown stars as Hero, a slave who must choose whether to join his master fighting for the Confederacy in exchange for his freedom. Sterling K. Brown reflects on playing O.J. prosecutor Chris Darden on TV and a slave in the 'Father Comes Home' play 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Stuart was a hero of the Confederacy, considered one of General Robert E Lee’s most important aides and known for his cavalier image. Julianne Moore wants school named after Confederate hero to be renamed 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The other is weirdly preoccupied with details and arcana, marking the minutiae of the Old South and especially the Confederacy. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Protesters in Richmond tore down a statue of Columbus and rolled it into a lake — and the next day, brought down a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. Controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down. Fixing the world that built them is harder. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z She expected them to become similar to symbols of the Confederacy, proud taboos for those who continue to hold on to them. What Happens Now to All That Washington N.F.L. Merchandise? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z America’s secretary of state threatened to “wrap the whole world in flames”, promising total war on any state that dared aid the Confederacy. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z I wish he was here to see these statues coming down, because my father adored Lincoln and was repulsed by the whole ‘Noble Cause’ Confederacy. Topple a Confederate Statue? This Broadway Musical Already Did. 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Schama describes as reeking of Old World prejudice Ulysses Grant’s Order 11 of 1862, expelling all Jews from his military jurisdiction on the flimsy ground that they were smuggling goods to the Confederacy. Millenniums of Tribulation 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z That lead Oliver to his show’s main topic — the Confederacy or as he calls it, “America’s tracksuit sex offender.” Stephen Colbert Helps John Oliver Take Down the Confederacy 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Devastated, O'Toole eventually committed suicide – but thanks to his mother's persistence, Confederacy was published 11 years after his death, won the Pulitzer prize and has since sold millions of copies worldwide. Lost literature: the unknown unknowns 2010-04-07T12:46:00Z Traces of the Old Confederacy linger around the margins at Ole Miss, and the university is working hard to scrub most of them away. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z Not the one honoring Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy and defender of slavery. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Advisers and cabinet members urge him to seize the victory over the rebellious Confederacy and exact a fierce tribute for its treachery. Critic?s Notebook: Nothing Left to Lose, or Too Dark to Contemplate 2010-09-07T22:17:00Z Actually, quite a bit, but instead of the upstairs/downstairs dynamic you have a Union/Confederacy dynamic, which creates a lot more tension, especially in a hospital treating soldiers from both sides. Mercy Street: PBS civil war hospital drama is ER version of Downton Abbey 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z One in Virginia held a monument to Jefferson Davis, who was president of the Confederacy. Sculpture of enslaved explorer mysteriously appears in Oregon park 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Throughout the country, there are hundreds of monuments to the Confederacy; there are fewer than 20 monuments to black women, said Duster, a writer and lecturer at Columbia College in Chicago. Ida B. Wells was a legend. $300,000 has been pledged for a monument honoring her. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Among many plot ironies, the victorious Union general Grant is presented as a drunk, while vanquished Lee of the Confederacy is seen nobly refusing to partake of privileges unavailable to his troops. Review: 'A Civil War Christmas' is sweeping tale 2012-12-05T03:46:05Z Battlefields: Saving Civil War Sites A century and a half ago, the battles in Virginia were fought between the Union and the Confederacy. Journeys: In Virginia, Touring Lesser-Known Civil War Sites 2011-04-29T20:30:10Z For example, what is it like to live in a largely African American community yet be surrounded by a commemorative landscape that exalts the old Confederacy? Perspective | With $250 million initiative, Mellon Foundation wades into monuments controversy, hoping for positive change 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Her sisters imbibed the same creed as Children of the Confederacy, a civic organization dedicated to the Lost Cause. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy sits, a squat block of white Georgia marble, directly beside the museum. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z “As I Lay Dying,” and “Wise Blood,” and later “A Confederacy of Dunces” and “The Color Purple” and “Fishboy”: these novels are fiercely atypical. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Coming so soon after a neoconfederate mob rampaged through the Capitol, a respectful biography of the ideological father of the Confederacy may feel as welcome as an exhumed corpse. John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z In his Times article, Lewis had an explanation for the seeming incongruity of a Black composer, born into slavery, celebrating a moment of triumph for the Confederacy. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Her students have participated in Civil War reënactments glorifying the Confederacy, she told me. Teaching Southern and Black History Under Trump 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The underlying sentiment of these assumptions almost always came with pity for being born inside the cradle of the Confederacy. Damn right, I come from Alabama: The symbolic and historic importance of the Alabama Sweet Tea Party 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Be prepared to fight anyone if they insulted our heritage, most especially the Confederacy. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Specifically, she said, the city’s official preservation community focused on narratives of the Lost Cause, presenting the area’s history from the view of the Confederacy. With ‘Story Porch,’ Seattle’s Wa Na Wari honors ancestors, community and West African spiritual traditions 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z In September 1864 — immediately after Gen. Sherman telegraphed Lincoln, “Atlanta is ours, and fairly won” — Robert E. Lee declared that the Confederacy had won the Civil War. Style Invitational Week 1414: Divining comedy — the year in preview 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Then it became a symbol of the Confederacy as a nation, not just about Confederate soldiers. The Confederate Flag’s stubborn meaning, beyond heritage vs. hate: “I’m a tough individual, you can’t get me down, you can’t tell me what to do” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z With the Confederacy’s having fallen just days before the play begins, and Richmond in ruins, Caleb’s father and the rest of his family have retreated to safer havens, waiting for the chaos to subside. | 'The Whipping Man': Candles, Matzo, Wine and Some Unusual Hosts 2011-02-02T03:30:37Z Just out in paperback, Foreman's tome is an absorbing chronicle of the British and their diplomatic high-wire act with the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. Summer reading: 10 nonfiction books to last the season 2012-06-15T17:01:34Z Although defeated in 1865, this dark strain was never destroyed; indeed, if the Confederacy lost the Civil War, Meacham remarks, in important ways it won the peace following the white South’s fitful overthrow of Reconstruction. A Battle for the ‘Soul of America’? It’s as Old as America, One Historian Notes 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The historian later suggests that Jefferson Davis, the first president of the Confederacy, was not racist because he “adopted a little black orphan child and raised him and secured his rights as a free person.” Jim Jefferies nails what’s wrong with preserving Confederate monuments 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Later, with altered verses, it became the national anthem of the Confederacy, and then the canonical expression of Lost Cause nostalgia in the Jim Crow era. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z As with the Confederacy itself, the fight to retain the flag in US public life is facing defeat. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z The South was just entering the early days of a revived debate over whether to reframe or remove vestiges of the Confederacy. Atlanta’s Cyclorama had the black role in a Civil War battle all wrong. She set about to fix that. 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z In Montgomery, Ala., the first capital of the Confederacy, the nonprofit group Equal Justice Initiative has purchased six acres of land on which it is building a memorial to honor the victims of lynching. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Like many Southerners, as I grew older and read and studied unbiased accounts of the Civil War, I rejected the idolization of the Confederacy. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The Museum of the Confederacy embodies the conflict in its very origins; its artifacts were accumulated in the midst of grief. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Confederacy and Others Depict the ?Lost Cause? 2011-12-05T23:01:15Z Now, here we are more than a century later in that city that once sat on the fault line between the Union and the Confederacy. Review | In ‘Jack,’ Marilynne Robinson’s fourth Gilead novel, a lost soul embarks on an impossible love affair 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z On July 3, 1863, Gen. George Pickett’s famous charge crested and broke at the Battle of Gettysburg—a moment that tradition would name the “High Water Mark of the Confederacy.” ‘Vicksburg’ Review: The Falling Tide of Gray 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z She confirmed he fought for the Confederacy, as did most Tennessee males of the Civil War era. Novelist's cosmopolitan family history reads like an intriguing novel 2010-10-07T19:32:00Z “Now I watch ‘Emancipation,’ just to see him get whooped,” Rock said, referencing last year’s Civil War-era drama in which Smith plays an enslaved man who is forced to labor for the Confederacy. Chris Rock Mocks Will Smith in Live Netflix Special, Addressing Oscars Slap 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z We don't support the Confederacy, the Confederate flag, racism or any of those things. NAACP honors Kid Rock for being Detroit booster 2011-04-29T19:43:15Z West Coast premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks' drama, set during the Civil War and centered on a slave who is offered a chance at freedom by fighting for the Confederacy. Theatrical works to see in spring: From 'A Gentleman's Guide' to John Leguizamo to 'Shakespeare 400' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Chesnut’s wartime diary is perhaps the most remarkable documentary account of daily life in the Confederacy. Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy, even though it’s a mere 100 miles from Washington, where Abraham Lincoln was working to set all men free. How three powerful movies this year took on Virginia’s troubled racial history 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z It features Generals Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee, along with Jefferson Davis, who served as the president of the Confederacy. A Confederate memorial towers over Stone Mountain, Georgia. A local African American woman wants it to stay there. 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z A monument to the Confederacy enrages a group of young people. Topple a Confederate Statue? This Broadway Musical Already Did. 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z English lords, ladies and politicians battling in the parlor and Parliament over whether the Union or the Confederacy held the higher moral and tactical ground. 4 good reads from National Book Critics Circle awards' finalists 2012-02-03T20:50:10Z There are lots of passages from “Julius Caesar” as Booth acted Brutus, but also high-minded stump speeches supporting the Confederacy and attacking Lincoln. Voices of political outsiders, from Booth to poetic radicals 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Following the violence that was seen at a white supremacist rally Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend, there’s been a renewed scrutiny on the lasting symbols of the Confederacy. Bill Maher brilliantly trolls Confederate statue supporters with a list of liberal replacements 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z But despite appearances the Confederacy had not been defeated, and today’s Republican Party represents its values almost perfectly. Slavery, the Nazis and the KKK: We can’t face the past, and it’s poisoning our future 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z But they were joined at the hip, just as defending the Confederacy and defending slavery were joined at the hip. The Confederate Flag’s stubborn meaning, beyond heritage vs. hate: “I’m a tough individual, you can’t get me down, you can’t tell me what to do” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z A professor of history makes a connection between the Confederacy and modern-day conservatives, arguing that democracy has always thrived on inequality. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Confederacy, a key store in Los Angeles that helped introduce Mr. Spurr to young Hollywood, told Women’s Wear Daily in March that it would drop the line. Front Row: Simon Spurr Puzzles Fashion Industry by Quitting His Label 2012-05-30T17:13:29Z So why do so many whites in the South and especially South Carolina still cling with all their strength to the memory of the Confederacy? Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The plaza of the museum, where the ceremony took place, faces the headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Kehinde Wiley’s Anti-Confederate Memorial 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z "Search for the Jefferson Davis: Trader, Slaver, Raider," released in March, tells the story of a merchant ship-turned-slaver-turned-privateer that was renamed after the president of the Confederacy. Black seaman's 1861 heroics recalled in new film 2011-07-07T15:30:30Z The Union should have whipped the Confederacy within six months, but even though they had more men and more guns, they couldn’t buy a victory in the first two years. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z One chapter unpacks the American Civil War, noting that disease caused nearly two-thirds of Union deaths and three-quarters of Confederacy deaths. Catch a Buzz With Two New Books About Bugs 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s a moment that exposes just how polarized these United States can be, long after the North vanquished the Confederacy. Terry Tempest Williams thinks, breathes and writes deeply in our national parks 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z This novel tells the real-life story behind “A Confederacy of Dunces,” the cult classic that won a Pulitzer after Toole, its author, committed suicide. New & Noteworthy, From Galileo to ‘Dunces’ 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z But there are pitfalls in eliminating memorials to the Confederacy – statues and monuments, along with the buildings, parks, schools and military bases named after Confederate soldiers. Why the case for the removal of Confederate memorials isn’t so clear-cut 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Perspective: We don’t need a TV show about the Confederacy winning. Her #OscarsSoWhite campaign changed how Hollywood deals with race. Now she’s taking on HBO. 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z You wouldn’t think this would need to be stated, but teens, you really ought to cool it with the Confederacy worship on your social media. Yet another “South will rise again” teen: White parents, it’s time to get serious with your kids about the horrors of slavery 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But some southern states insist on honoring the Confederacy. Trevor Noah wonders why we still have Confederate memorials: “Some people support the monuments, while other people are black” 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z It emboldened the abolitionists in the North and made opposing countries like France and the UK bristle at the thought of supporting the pro-slavery forces of the Confederacy. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Harlan ultimately opposed secession and fought against the Confederacy, but he also opposed the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s re-election bid, and the 13th and 14th Amendments. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Therefore they cling to false narratives of the Confederacy. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z As the camera pans out, a battered Confederate flag buckles and billows in the wind, in what appears to show honor and resilience, despite the flag's shabbiness and the Confederacy's defeat. “BlacKkKlansman” and white women: Spike Lee’s new film indicts their investment in white su... 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z All four of her half-brothers fought for the Confederacy, and three of them died during the war. Tony Kushner on His Lincoln Screenplay, Séances and the Greatest Political Speech of All Time 2012-10-25T11:45:42Z Kentucky, a border state, had declared neutrality before the Confederacy invaded. A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z “First of all, the Confederacy fought the Civil War to defend slavery,” Noah said. Trevor Noah wonders why we still have Confederate memorials: “Some people support the monuments, while other people are black” 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Appeared in the May 26, 2018, print edition as 'First Lady of the Confederacy.' Fiction Chronicle: First Lady of the Confederacy 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Lincoln visited Richmond after the fall of the Confederacy in 1865, shortly before his assassination. Spielberg to film 'Lincoln' scenes in Richmond 2011-10-04T18:53:08Z James Badge Dale, whose résumé includes the mini-series “The Pacific” and one of the better seasons of “24,” is Wade, who as the movie opens is returning home after fighting for the Confederacy. Review: ‘Echoes of War’ Follows a Confederate Soldier Home 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z During the Civil War, Richmond served as the capital of the Confederacy, and Stuart was a Confederate commander and slave owner. A Virginia school named after a Confederate general will be renamed Barack Obama Elementary School 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Return to the beginning of Willmott’s film: he depicts a Confederacy that triumphed only owing to a dubious alliance with America’s enemies for the sole purpose of maintaining white supremacy. “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America,” a Faux Documentary That Skewers Real White Supremacy 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Wind Gap is a particularly southern-inflected part of Missouri; one episode turns on “Calhoun Day,” a local Civil War commemoration sympathetic to the Confederacy. Review: ‘Sharp Objects’ Cuts Slow but Deep 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The song also proclaimed that, in a modern Confederacy, “we would take Miami back.” The Awkward, Enduring Influence of Hank Williams, Jr. 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z As in “Sin City” or “A Confederacy of Dunces,” plot is pointedly unimportant to “The Plotters,” mostly a medium for satire and repulsion. Murderous Husbands, Flapper-Era Gun Molls and Korean Assassins: The Best Winter Thrillers 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Today’s tourists aren’t just trudging through Civil War battlefields and dusty museums trumpeting the city’s past as the capital of the Confederacy. What’s new (and old) in Richmond, Virginia’s trendy capital 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z While the title evokes the Confederacy, it also teases a bond between the two women. Dominique Morisseau Asks: ‘What Does Freedom Look Like Now?’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z This November, the “Parks and Recreation” alumnus Nick Offerman will star in the world premiere production of “A Confederacy of Dunces” with the Huntington Theater Company in Boston. Nick Offerman Joins ‘Confederacy of Dunces’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z It emphasizes the unredeemable atrocities and crimes that are minimized or even celebrated by today’s white supremacist, Confederacy nostalgists, and their political allies of convenience or ignorance. The Stunning Achievement of Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet” 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Throughout this city, which proudly proclaims itself the cradle of both the Confederacy and the civil rights movement, two different histories coexist, separate and unequal. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The Confederacy was fought for the preservation of slavery, which Oliver notes is not his opinion, but fact, with a litany of historical documents to back up the claim. Stephen Colbert Helps John Oliver Take Down the Confederacy 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Fort Niagara has been well preserved, however, and was even expanded during the Civil War when the Union feared that Canadians might align with the Confederacy. Near Niagara Falls, U.S. and Canadian forts from the War of 1812 still face off 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Now the Confederacy was disintegrating, and Booth revised the plan, giving the final orders that Friday evening. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z His oldest son died while fighting for the Confederacy. 'Lincoln's Code': the man who wrote the rules of war 2012-11-14T20:37:05Z It’s set on a shady hillside near the grave of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, hero of the Texas Revolution and son of the Confederacy, who died at Shiloh. The State That Foreshadows America’s Future 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Who wants to watch a four-hour apologia for the Confederacy when I can check out Rebecca, The Heiress, or My Man Godfrey? “Gone with the Wind” must stay: Why banning the racist film solves nothing 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Point of Honor: The Civil War drama from Lost’s Carlton Cuse is about the son of a wealthy southern family who sets his slaves free while fighting for the Confederacy. Amazon's Pilots for 2015 Include Comedy With 'True Blood' Star 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z He has made at least one trip to the Museum of the Confederacy in downtown Richmond, also home to the former Confederate White House, and has been seen in an area restaurant. Spielberg's Lincoln movie to film in Va. this fall 2011-05-04T19:44:11Z Multiple buildings on the campus are named for Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson as well as other alumni and faculty who fought for the Confederacy. Probe ordered of VMI after report on racist incidents 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z RICHMOND, Va. — As Devon Henry and his construction team take down the last remnants of statues that long dotted this former capital of the Confederacy, they have developed a grim game. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z After the annexation was finally muscled through a bitterly divided Congress, Houston became the only Southern governor to oppose secession and left the office rather than serving in the Confederacy, as Ms. Collins notes. Books of The Times: ‘As Texas Goes ’ by Gail Collins 2012-07-02T21:01:09Z Historical fact: Englishman Frank Dawson moved to South Carolina to fight for the Confederacy, believing the Civil War was a conflict over states’ rights. The 10 books to read in May 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Like white Creoles, some owned slaves, and some later fought for the Confederacy. A Painter Resurrects Louisiana’s Vanished Creole Culture 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z This is why it was the final state to secede from the Union, and it is part of the reason so many North Carolinians deserted the effort when the Confederacy began experiencing major military setbacks. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z As a symbol of white supremacy, it was sung by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Ku Klux Klan. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z "We no longer want to see a statue that glorifies the values of Jefferson Davis, who while leading the Confederacy, owned a plantation with over 100 slaves," the petition states. Jefferson Davis statue deemed racist to be relocated at UT Austin 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z There are American Civil War games in which players take the role of the Confederacy. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Senate, as well as serving as the Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce before being elected president of the Confederacy in 1861. Review | 20 years after ‘Cold Mountain,’ Charles Frazier is hot again 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z There are some 1,500 memorials to the Confederacy in the States, including U.S. military bases, which Oliver noted was very strange considering that Confederate soldiers killed U.S. soldiers. Stephen Colbert Helps John Oliver Take Down the Confederacy 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z One of the most significant naval battles of the Civil War took place in Mobile Bay, where Union troops succeeded in capturing the Confederacy’s last major port, sealing the rebels’ fate. Mardi Gras in Mobile — where it started 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Technically, this was not a State of the Union, because I think in this timeline the Confederacy won. ‘Donald Trump is the Chris Brown of politics’ – the best presidential gags 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The announcement marks the latest step in the cathedral’s grappling with the Lee and Jackson windows, which were donated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and installed in 1953. Washington National Cathedral to replace Confederate-themed stained glass with new windows by celebrated artist Kerry James Marshall 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z “My marriage lasted twice as long as the Confederacy, and I’ve already taken down all the monuments,” she recently tweeted. The Nudes Aren’t Going Away. Katie Hill’s OK With That. 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Consciously or not, pop culture was now in step with the “lost cause” narrative, which had striven to dissociate the Confederacy from slavery and racism, aligning it instead with nobility and heroism. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Vallandigham was all set to go to prison until Lincoln decided to commute his sentence and banish him to the Confederacy. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z In the early 1900s, two Civil War memorials — both honoring the Confederacy — were erected in the busy downtown district of Wilmington, N.C. In North Carolina, a new Civil War memorial honors Black Union soldiers 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The Confederacy, he reported, was alive and well, and as full of animus at the idea of equality as ever. Tony Horwitz, a Historian Who Reckoned Fearlessly with the Legacy of the Civil War 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z They worked hard, kept loved ones close and built a way for their progeny in the state that would become the heart of the Confederacy. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z In a sense, Powers is heir to the bigoted and poetic characters from “A Confederacy of Dunces.” Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z The history of the Army’s relationship to the Confederacy and Lee is fascinating, especially in light of current controversies over military bases named after Confederate commanders. Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Statues of Confederate soldiers are common in the South in a number of courthouse squares, while streets and parks bear the names of people or events associated with the Confederacy. Why the case for the removal of Confederate memorials isn’t so clear-cut 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z I was reminded of “A Confederacy of Dunces” and a regrettably obscure novel by Christopher Miller called “Simon Silber,” about a composer who removes all the strings from his piano. Review | In ‘Kraft,’ German author Jonas Lüscher pokes fun at Silicon Valley’s shiny elitism and rabid faith in technology 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z “He was president of the Confederacy on the one hand and on the other a revered statesman of the U.S. He went to West Point and was a veteran of the Mexican-American War.” Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z “To create a kind of hero worship around the Confederacy and to support state sanctioned white supremacy, it’s appropriate to re-examine them and to change their context.” Trump Aside, Artists and Preservationists Debate the Rush to Topple Statues 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z He and his followers “seceded” from the Confederacy, calling Jones County “The Free State of Jones.” Here Is Matthew McConaughey as Your Civil War Boyfriend 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The mad, the melancholy, the murderous; brothers, one a Union sympathizer, the other hot for the Confederacy; barnstorming Shakespeareans with lives out of Shakespeare: the Booth family could provide material for a dozen fascinating dramas. | 'An Error of the Moon': Redrawing a Picture of Lincoln?s Assassin 2010-08-31T02:01:00Z “Fifty Shades of Grey” sits in the same ranks as “A Confederacy of Dunces.” Wil Wheaton, lifelong fan of PBS and libraries, has one book he can’t recommend 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Principal filming is scheduled to begin this fall at various historical locations in Petersburg and Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy. Spielberg's Lincoln movie to film in Va. this fall 2011-05-04T19:44:11Z As maybe a table full of white people dine outside, under a tent, a Black staff stands behind them, at the ready, a completely different sort of monument to the Confederacy. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Those pen-and-ink soldiers, in the pages of Horwitz’s many books, came to life in their descendants, champions of the Confederacy, modern-day Klansmen, anguished, angry, and haunted. Tony Horwitz, a Historian Who Reckoned Fearlessly with the Legacy of the Civil War 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z “It was always Grant, the drunkard. I felt they got it wrong,” he says, describing the general as opposing two enemies during the war: the Confederacy and liquor. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z In the interest of being forthright and honest, Barnes said, "I didn’t know the Confederacy started in Montgomery and I didn’t know the Civil Rights Movement actually started in Montgomery." New York man biking across US 'literally feels' Alabama's rich history: 'You get the shivers' 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z He fought efforts to defund historically black colleges and universities and opposed a 1993 amendment allowing the United Daughters of the Confederacy to renew the patent on a Confederate flag insignia. Former senator Carol Moseley Braun is back on the campaign trail, stumping for Joe Biden 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Before the Civil War his forebear Senator Alfred Iverson Sr. insisted that a slaveholding Confederacy would outshine “any nation of ancient or modern times.” Antiques: The Beauty That Remains Beyond the Final Curtain 2013-04-25T21:19:43Z Hero, the protagonist, is a slave who is persuaded to fight for the Confederacy on the promise that if he joins his master in battle he will win his liberty. Suzan-Lori Parks moves a stage beyond race to get to our 'mythic or epic experience' in her plays 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Two years later, Clinton High in Tennessee was the first school in the former Confederacy to attempt to follow that ruling. 14 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z A wealthy society woman living in Richmond, Va., during the Civil War, Van Lew engaged in extensive undercover work for the Union — right under the noses of the Confederacy. Karen Abott's history of four Civil War women who spied or lied 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Two of them were convicted of crimes; the other three supported the Confederacy and its rebellion against the U.S. George Santos says he won’t run for reelection after blistering ethics report calls for DOJ referral 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Three were purged because they fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, and the other two were kicked out after convictions on bribery charges. House Ethics panel won’t propose Santos sanctions, but chairman foresees another expulsion effort 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z In an interview ahead of the vote, Scott said his election as speaker would show the progress made in Virginia and Richmond — the former capital of the Confederacy — over their long history. Newly empowered Virginia Democrats nominate the state’s first Black House speaker, Don Scott 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z In an interview ahead of the vote, Scott said his election as speaker would show the progress made in Virginia and Richmond - the former capital of the Confederacy - over their long history. Newly empowered Virginia Democrats nominate the state’s first Black House speaker, Don Scott 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z The disqualification clause was originally applied to people who had fought for the Confederacy, and modern interpretations have had few instances of being tested, especially never in a case so significant. “Alarming implications”: Legal scholar says Trump disqualification case headed to Supreme Court 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z In 1868, the year the 14th was adopted, that meant people who sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War. Opinion: Trump is running despite the 14th Amendment. He's not the first insurrectionist to do so 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z They were installed in 1953 and donated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, National Cathedral replaces windows honoring Confederacy with stained-glass homage to racial justice 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z For instance, leaders in Texas still followed the state’s Confederate constitution, which stated that no laws could be passed freeing enslaved people, even though the Confederacy had lost the war. Celebrating Juneteenth 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z The prohibition on those who had taken an oath to support the Constitution but then engaged in insurrection or rebellion was aimed at former backers of the Confederacy. Lawsuit argues Trump disqualified from appearing on California ballot 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z These voters, who had generally shunned Republicans since the hated Lincoln broke the Confederacy, were not a natural fit for the GOP as it existed in those years. Why liberalism drives so many people crazy 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z He achieved his political rise in South Carolina, once the cradle of the Confederacy. Tim Scott is the top Black Republican in the GOP presidential primary. Here’s how he discusses race 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z The cathedral has accompanied the window replacement with a number of public forums discussing the legacy of racism and how monuments were used to burnish the image of the Confederacy as a noble “Lost Cause.” National Cathedral replaces windows honoring Confederacy with stained-glass homage to racial justice 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Montgomery was the first capital of the Confederacy and the riverfront is an area where enslaved people were once unloaded to be sold at auction. Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z The university has replaced one marker – Traveller’s gravestone – with a version omitting original references to Lee along with the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Yea or neigh: Lee’s horse becomes controversial at Confederate general’s college 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z It’s a “bad faith effort” to distance the park from the Confederacy, said Rivka Maizlish, a researcher with the Southern Poverty Law Center. Civil rights groups condemn ‘Soul Fest’ concerts at Georgia park with giant Confederate carving 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Those sons and daughters of the South who've been taught propaganda about the noble "lost cause" of the Confederacy will get the last laugh. Donald Trump unleashed a war against the U.S. government — and now he can't control it 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z For more than a century, this statue commemorating the Confederacy has stood inside Arlington - known as America's most sacred shrine. The fight over a Confederate statue in Arlington National Cemetery 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z In 2017, activists tore down the Daughters of the Confederacy Veterans Monument in the privately-owned Lake View Cemetery in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Dear Fremont: We need to talk about Lenin and your statue of the genocidal tyrant | David Volodzko 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The original marker stated: “The last home of Traveller. Through war and peace the faithful, devoted and beloved horse of General Robert Lee. Placed by the Virginia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy.” Yea or neigh: Lee’s horse becomes controversial at Confederate general’s college 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z “The music can’t bring people together in front of this icon of the Confederacy,” he said. Civil rights groups condemn ‘Soul Fest’ concerts at Georgia park with giant Confederate carving 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The challenges from individual states to the federal government will fail, ending whatever "civil war" the former Confederacy wishes to start — and Norm Eisen also believes Trump's presidential campaign will fail. Donald Trump unleashed a war against the U.S. government — and now he can't control it 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The decision is part of an ongoing movement to rethink how the US remembers the Confederacy. The fight over a Confederate statue in Arlington National Cemetery 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Texas was the last in the Confederacy to learn the Civil War was over. Juneteenth draws thousands to Seattle celebrations 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z The university’s board of trustees has made its intentions clear, however — and are “making changes to remove doubt about our separation from the Confederacy,” they said. Yea or neigh: Lee’s horse becomes controversial at Confederate general’s college 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The news came two months after the Confederacy had surrendered and about two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in the Southern states. The Obamas, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Kerry Washington mark Juneteenth: 'Lean into your liberation' 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Texas was the last in the Confederacy to learn the Civil War was over and slavery abolished. In Seattle, more people are celebrating Juneteenth than ever — here’s how 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Her distant cousin had fought for the Confederacy. The fight over a Confederate statue in Arlington National Cemetery 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The news arrived two months after the Confederacy had surrendered and about 2½ years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in the Southern states. Here's where to celebrate Juneteenth in Los Angeles County this weekend 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z A decade later, his mother helped get “Confederacy” published by Louisiana State University to public acclaim, the Pulitzer Prize and lasting affection, the kind of fate Gottlieb’s other authors often enjoyed. Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z At the time, lawmakers said that having a prime military installation named after a leading general of the Confederacy was inappropriate. DeSantis pledges to restore Confederate general’s name to U.S. military base 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Many tribes allied themselves with the Confederacy and fought to preserve the institution of slavery. Two Black Members of Native Tribes Were Arrested. The Law Sees Only One as Indian. 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Historians now largely view this explanation for the war as a myth, spread to cast the Confederacy in an honourable light, and to mask the brutality of the country's slave-owning past. The fight over a Confederate statue in Arlington National Cemetery 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The renaming push was the clearest example of the Pentagon’s broader effort to purge its historical ties to the Confederacy and its legacy of slavery. ‘To me, it’s still going to be Fort Bragg’: Name change for iconic Army base touches a nerve 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Even better yet, as an act of protest, that United Daughters of the Confederacy certificate could be publicly burned. A new Daughter of the Confederacy 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z On Jan. 6, the descendants of the Confederacy and Jim and Jane Crow White America, besieged and overran Congress with the goal of keeping Trump in power indefinitely. Call Marjorie Taylor Greene by her name: white supremacist 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Last year, Greene publicly championed Confederacy in a befuddled but broader sense when she visited the Wilder monument in Chickamauga, GA to honor Confederate soldiers of the Wilder Brigade. Marjorie Taylor Greene shows off her Confederate beer cooler in a new workout video 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z The Department of Defense says it must be removed by 1 January 2024 at the latest, "as it offers a nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy". The fight over a Confederate statue in Arlington National Cemetery 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z In 1758, the Shawnee tribe, the Delaware tribe, and the powerful Iroquoian Confederacy agreed to ally with the English in exchange for their promise to respect Indigenous rights to contested lands on the frontier. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Was he saying that reparations should be a national endeavor — spearheaded by Congress and the president — not the lone project of a state, particularly one that was not part of the Confederacy? Column: Newsom and California lawmakers need to say where they stand on reparations for slavery 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z The post’s official opening took place in September 1942 and was named in honor of John Bell Hood, a West Point graduate who sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War. Fort Hood to become Fort Cavazos in ceremony Tuesday following Pentagon’s Confederate purge 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z It was initially enacted to prosecute Southerners who continued to fight after the Confederacy surrendered the Civil War. WA Proud Boy convicted in Jan. 6 riot at U.S. Capitol 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z In its 234-year history, the Senate has expelled 15 members: one for treason and 14 because of their support for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Feinstein has vowed to return to Washington, but what happens if she doesn't? 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Between 1609 and 1646, Virginia colonists fought a series of wars with the Powhatan Confederacy, an alliance of tribes that spoke languages of the Algonquin family. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Pentagon officials said the post is one of nine Army installations being re-designated to remove names, symbols and other displays commemorating the Confederacy. U.S. Army renames Fort Lee in Virginia after two Black former officers 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z After the university board endorsed much of the plan, the official alumni magazine described it as “more diversity, less Confederacy.” At U.Va., an Alumnus Attacked Diversity Programs. Now He Is on the Board. 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The 1967 CDC report broke up the statistics by region — and the area with the highest murder rates were in the old Confederacy. Analysis | Newsom’s claim that Trump states have the highest murder rates 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z They were shopkeepers, clergy, bankers and teachers — and most were from the Midwest or North, not the heart of the Old Confederacy. Opinion | What we can learn from the Midwestern war against the Klan 100 years ago 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z The Iroquois Confederacy was a collection of allied Native American tribes who called themselves Haudenosaunee, which means “people of the longhouse.” World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The ceremony will be the culmination of a yearslong effort to purge the symbols of the Confederacy from the military. Army Base to Be Renamed for Native American War Hero, Replacing Confederate 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Army brigadier general, referencing efforts by leading Southerners to cast the Confederacy as noble and principled rather than a rebellion from the North in an attempt to hold on to slavery. After 81 years, a Virginia military base sheds its Confederate name 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z “I had some politically incorrect views that came from a place of undue reverence for the Confederacy when I was growing up,” Mr. Huffman said. Accuser Reveals Name in Groping Suit Against Matt Schlapp, Top Conservative 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Destroying the Union and creating a 21st-century Confederacy has long been a fantasy, threat, and goal of white supremacists, neo confederates and other members of the white right and those who are allied with them. Stop mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z In 1806, the British supported the Fante Confederacy, their African trading partner on what is now the coast of Ghana, in a series of conflicts with the Asante Empire and its Dutch allies. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z We also give more of our tax dollars to red states, especially in the former Confederacy. How free-market extremism became America's default mode 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Military Academy graduate from Richmond who fought for the Confederacy and helped lead an infamous, ill-fated charge at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, is still something of a mystery in these parts. After 81 years, a Virginia military base sheds its Confederate name 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Kentucky has public holidays for the birthdays of Washington; Lincoln; Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy; and Franklin D. Roosevelt. How One President’s Day Became Presidents’ Day 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z America's native form of fascism, the Confederacy offered a white supremacist terror and surveillance society where white "Christian" men rule over all others uncontested and ordained by "God's" will. Stop mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Marshall, still the lone Black justice, voiced the “deep irony” of preventing the former capital of the Confederacy from addressing its own “disgraceful history of public and private racial discrimination.” Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Three others were disqualified for supporting the Confederacy. Only 5 House members have ever been expelled. Here’s who they were. 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Union lines held, and the battle ended the next day with Union victory and the start of the collapse of the Confederacy. Civil War artillery shell found on Gettysburg battlefield 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z The Confederacy was dedicated to perpetuating a system based on human bondage. Opinion | Why Europe has a monument problem of its own 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The 21st-century Confederacy, like the original, would also be a plutocracy where the white rich and monied classes would control society without restrictions or limits. Stop mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The constitution celebrated by Tea Party activists was closer to that of the Confederacy than to the one that supposedly governs the actual United States. From Bush to Trump to Jan. 6: The rise and fall of "constitutional conservatism" 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z When DeSantis taught school, according to some of his students, he told them that the Confederacy had a point because they "lost property" and that abortion "was wrong". Students threaten to sue DeSantis over rejection of AP African-American studies course 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The Atlanta History Center’s “Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain” peels back the troubled history of the largest monument to the Confederacy. How a new Tucson memorial found a way to mourn mass-shooting victims 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Last month, Richmond, which served as the Confederacy’s capital for most of the Civil War, removed the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Confederate general’s remains moved to Virginia hometown 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Other polls show not insignificant levels of support among Republicans for the Confederacy and a belief that secession was justified. Stop mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Indeed, the constitution celebrated by the Tea Party was closer to that of the Confederacy than the one that supposedly governs the actual United States. From Bush to Trump to Jan. 6: The rise and fall of "constitutional conservatism" 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Goes to show that many of these monuments to the Confederacy were less about “heritage” and more about symbolically keeping Black advancement in check. Opinion | Boston’s ‘Embrace’ holds fast to the whitewashed view of MLK 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z L. Douglas Wilder has spent most of his long life in Richmond, a city that was once the capital of the Confederacy. The five Black governors who came before Maryland’s Wes Moore 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z In the 1920s, the nationwide revival of the Ku Klux Klan reached Los Angeles, where sympathy for the Confederacy took root during the Civil War. Recent report on L.A. County hate crime numbers is a reminder of when we didn't even count them 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z This is a false equivalence, one that has been made many times since statues and other memorials, particularly those of the Confederacy, began to be taken down. Opinion | Removing monuments is not erasing history 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The House has expelled only five members in its entire history, most for joining the Confederacy during the Civil War. Voters have few options to remove George Santos from Congress besides waiting till the next election 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Reconstruction posed immense legal and political questions concerning the states of the former Confederacy in the wake of the Civil War. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z As Sheffield Hale, the president of the history center, says at the top of the film: “Does this park memorializing the Confederacy represent where we as Georgians want to be in the 21st century?” How Stone Mountain weaponized art against Black people, in a compelling new documentary 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Harry Turtledove, a trained historian himself, became a bestselling author with his novels based on the Confederacy winning the American Civil War and eight decades of ongoing turmoil. Imagining a Seattle if Amazon had never nested here 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Over the past three years, as the former capital of the Confederacy has taken down more than a dozen monuments to the Lost Cause, Henry — who is Black — has overseen all the work. White contractors wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it. 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The Defense Department’s directive, included within an extensive mandate to strip away all remaining attachment to the Confederacy, is stark and vague. What to do with Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate Memorial 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Southern litigants brought a slew of challenges to the Reconstruction Act, claiming that the military rule of the former Confederacy was unconstitutional. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Most postcards of the huge granite outcropping that rises abruptly on the outskirts of Atlanta dwell on one section: a vast carving of three giants of the Confederacy — Jefferson Davis, Robert E. How Stone Mountain weaponized art against Black people, in a compelling new documentary 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Section 3 targeted Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. senator who was president of the rebellious Confederacy, along with other leaders of the attempted overthrow of the U.S. Opinion | Criminal prosecution is the wrong idea. Use the 14th Amendment on Trump. 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z All 11 states that joined the Confederacy have at least one statue depicting an enslaver or Confederate. Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? At a virtual public meeting of the cemetery’s advisory panel last month, one committee member asked if the memorial could be returned to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which commissioned it decades ago. What to do with Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate Memorial 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Nathaniel Lee, who said he was an indirect descendant of the Lee family, thought it was important to acknowledge the area’s ties to the Confederacy. Parks in Fairfax’s Franconia district scrap the Confederate Lee name 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z “I know that a lot of people think the Confederacy and this monument represent their heritage,” says Claire Haley, who works on democracy initiatives at the history center. How Stone Mountain weaponized art against Black people, in a compelling new documentary 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The moves come after a Defense Department directive in October that ordered West Point to remove or replace items “that commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy or those who voluntarily served with the Confederacy.” West Point to Remove Confederate Monuments From Its Campus 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Enslaver Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, is honored in the Capitol with a statue sent by Mississippi. Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? The moves are part of a Department of Defense directive issued in October ordering the academy to address racial injustice and do away with installations that “commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy.” West Point moves to vanquish Confederate symbols from campus 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z While United Daughters of the Confederacy claimed it was involved in erecting the monument, the Supreme Court concurred that it did not have ownership and thus could not claim legal interest in the matter. NC Supreme Court dismisses suit to return Confederate statue 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Voters cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was supposed to prevent congressmen who fought in the Confederacy from returning to their position in Congress. Conservative lawyer who saved Madison Cawthorn from election challenge sues him for not paying bills 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The directive was based on recommendations from the Naming Commission, which was created by Congress last year to assess Defense Department items that commemorate the Confederacy at West Point and the U.S. West Point to Remove Confederate Monuments From Its Campus 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z But the portrait of speaker John Bell, a Tennessee slaveholder who supported the Confederacy, still hangs. Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? But the oversized plaques, dedicated in 1965, not only featured Lee and other supporters of the Confederacy but an image of an armed man in a hood, with “Ku Klux Klan” written below. West Point moves to vanquish Confederate symbols from campus 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California has called to remove other statues, markers and monuments to the Confederacy from the Capitol. Congress Clears Bill to Replace Taney Statue in Capitol With Thurgood Marshall 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z It was a small moment of something like grace on a cold day when the last major city-owned Confederate monument disappeared from the former capital of the Confederacy. Workers remove remains of Confederate general under Richmond monument 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z At least 230 symbols of the Confederacy have been removed or renamed since May 2020, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that supports the removal of the symbols. West Point to Remove Confederate Monuments From Its Campus 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z A spokesman for Pelosi said since Bell was not an active participant in the Confederacy, the House curator did not flag the portrait for removal. Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? The congressional Naming Commission, which initiated the changes at the academy, noted “there are clearly ties in the KKK to the Confederacy.” West Point moves to vanquish Confederate symbols from campus 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The House voted in 2021 and 2020 to remove more than a dozen statues that lawmakers categorize as symbols of the Confederacy or racism, but those bills died in the Senate. Congress Clears Bill to Replace Taney Statue in Capitol With Thurgood Marshall 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z City officials have said they plan to give the statue to the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia in Richmond, which was the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War. Remains of Confederate general removed from under monument 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z General Gilland said that the academy also planned to replace a Lee quote in its Honor Plaza and would modify stone markers that honor the Confederacy in its Reconciliation Plaza. West Point to Remove Confederate Monuments From Its Campus 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Figures listed as Confederates are people who publicly expressed loyalty to the Confederacy. Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? The city of Richmond, Virginia, former seat of the pro-slaveowning Confederacy, has removed its last statue honouring rebels from the American Civil War. Former seat of Confederacy takes down last monument 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z The former capital of the Confederacy is now almost free of Lost Cause iconography in public spaces — an outcome that seemed unthinkable only a few years ago. Richmond takes down its last major city-owned Confederate memorial 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z The joyous moment unfolded with little fanfare in a majority-Black city that was once the capital of the Confederacy. Opinion | Richmond’s removal of a final Confederate statue is a joyous milestone 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z A Black-owned construction business on Monday dismantled and removed the last public Confederate statue on display in Richmond, Virginia, the city that served as the capital of the Confederacy during the U.S. IMF shareholders deeply divided on whether to suspend surcharges on some loans 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Like other American cities, Richmond, which was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War, has worked to undo the symbols and monuments of its Confederate history. Richmond’s Last Confederate Statue Is Removed 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Since the police murder of George Floyd in Minnesota in 2020, the US movement to purge all remaining symbols of the Confederacy has gathered momentum. Former seat of Confederacy takes down last monument 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z He had once said he did not wish to live to see the Confederacy fall, and he didn’t. Richmond takes down its last major city-owned Confederate memorial 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Statues of the Confederacy, a pro-slavery coalition of Southern states that fought to secede from the Union, were once protected by state law. Virginia capital removes last public Confederate monument 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z RICHMOND, Va. — The city of Richmond - the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War - has removed its last public Confederate statue. Confederate statue of General A.P. Hill removed from Richmond, Va., intersection, moving to museum 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Richmond has since removed about a dozen statues and other memorials, from cannons and highway markers to statues of the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, and the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Richmond’s Last Confederate Statue Is Removed 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Richmond has already removed statues honouring rebel military commander Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. Former seat of Confederacy takes down last monument 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Those seeking removal of the statues, particularly in Richmond - the onetime capital of the Confederacy - said that would service notice that the city is no longer a place with symbols of oppression and white supremacy. Confederate monument set to be removed from Virginia capital 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z The city, a onetime capital of the Confederacy, began removing its many other Confederate monuments more than two years ago amid the racial justice protests that followed George Floyd’s murder. Confederate monument set to be removed from Virginia capital 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z “I voted to keep the statue,” said Rob Quartel, a member of the local Republican committee who joined the weekend video conference and said his ancestors fought for the Confederacy. Va. county delays vote on Confederate statue as more oppose giveaway plan 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Chapters of the SCV and the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the monument in 1912, but those chapters have long since gone defunct. Virginia county poised to take unusual step to preserve Confederate statue 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z He died in 1924, more than 60 years after he joined the Confederacy. How Army Bases in the South Were Named for Defeated Confederates 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z “Emancipation” seeks to capture a panoramic snapshot of a rattled Confederacy nearing its final days, providing what the production notes describe as “an immersive, 360-degree experience.” Review: 'Emancipation,' with Will Smith, struggles to do its real-life survival story justice 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Those seeking removal of the statues, particularly in Richmond — the onetime capital of the Confederacy — said that would service notice that the city is no longer a place with symbols of oppression and white supremacy. Confederate monument set to be removed from Virginia capital 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z “It’s not about the Confederacy, and it’s not about the monument,” he told the supervisors. Va. county delays vote on Confederate statue as more oppose giveaway plan 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z But at a school where cadets fought and died for the Confederacy, resistance to change was immediate and intense. VMI’s first Black superintendent under attack by conservative White alumni 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Earl J. Hess, a historian and author of a Bragg biography titled “The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy,” has described the general as “the Confederacy’s chief whipping boy.” How Army Bases in the South Were Named for Defeated Confederates 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z That has made him a target in recent years of racial justice advocates in Savannah and elsewhere seeking to remove from public spaces statues and other honors to the Confederacy and white supremacists. Georgia city strips 170-year-old honor from slavery advocate 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z It's a phrase they essentially invented, although it was occasionally used by the Confederacy during its later years when they tried to suppress poor white voters who opposed the oligarchy. Republicans pointed a weapon at the heart of our democracy — in 1964. We're feeling it now 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Raised in Augusta, Ga., by a family that supported the Confederacy, Wilson clung to a Southern segregationist’s ugly racial views all his life. Review | How a forgotten American crisis led to democratic renewal 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z She and Tower grew up in Virginia, which she acknowledged as the former capital of the Confederacy. We're voting for Karen Bass for L.A. mayor. Here's why 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z The bases were originally named as part of a movement to glorify the Confederacy and advance the Lost Cause myth that the Civil War was fought over “states’ rights” and not slavery. How Army Bases in the South Were Named for Defeated Confederates 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z But it also represented a victory for those in Richmond who have been fighting to rid the city of symbols of the Confederacy and the memorials, street names and markers that glorified it. Richmond Can Remove Last Confederate Statue, Judge Rules 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z He has ties to Christian nationalism and a fondness for the Confederacy, and he has trafficked in anti-Muslim bigotry. Doug Mastriano's campaign struggling to hide what a ginormous right-wing nut he is 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z "Their widespread placement allowed the Confederacy to reimagine its treasonous acts as a noble effort while minimizing their brutal role in preserving slavery." How the South won the PR war while losing the Civil War 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday signed off on a plan to strip any mention of the Confederacy from U.S. military bases, including renaming the Army’s legendary Fort Bragg and Fort Hood. Goodbye, Fort Hood: Austin approves plan to nix Confederate names from U.S. military bases 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Hundreds of symbols of the Confederacy have been removed across the country since the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. How Army Bases in the South Were Named for Defeated Confederates 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z “This is the last stand for the Lost Cause in our city,” he said in a statement, referring to the movement after the Civil War by former Confederates to justify the Confederacy. Richmond Can Remove Last Confederate Statue, Judge Rules 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z That is especially true in Alabama and more specifically Montgomery, where memorials to those advances coexist within sight of statues and memorials honoring the Confederacy. Black representation in Alabama tested before Supreme Court 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z That includes the time a grandfather who fought for the Confederacy survived the Battle of Gettysburg despite heavy losses to his Alabama unit, according to Flynt. Book shows personal side of ‘Mockingbird’ author Harper Lee 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Much of it was couched in an unreconstructed view of history in which the Lost Cause is noble, the Confederacy was a bastion of states’ rights and Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was an unprincipled butcher. Statue debate provokes fiery defense of Confederacy in Va.’s Mathews County 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z John Bell Hood was a Kentucky-born West Point graduate who defected from the Army and joined the Confederacy in April 1861. How Army Bases in the South Were Named for Defeated Confederates 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Like other cities across the nation, Richmond has struggled with how to get rid of the symbols of its Confederate history, particularly as the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Richmond Can Remove Last Confederate Statue, Judge Rules 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Desecrations swiftly followed at the Ocmulgee Mounds, the spiritual, legislative and economic heart of the Creek Confederacy. The Muscogee get their say in national park plan for Georgia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z He had ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War, he said, and for the Confederacy. A Virginia county maneuvers to protect a Confederate statue at its courthouse 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The board took no action Wednesday but suggested that it will continue to pursue the possibility of deeding the statue to groups such as the SCV or United Daughters of the Confederacy. Statue debate provokes fiery defense of Confederacy in Va.’s Mathews County 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z His "rigged and stolen election" is the new version of the Confederacy's "Lost Cause." I voted for Trump — twice. I was a right-wing pundit. I was dead wrong about all of it 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z The Confederate monument at Arlington National Cemetery should be removed completely as part of the broader effort to scrub all U.S. military place names and assets that pay homage to the Confederacy. Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate monument should be removed, panel says 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The pedestal features 14 shields, engraved with the coats of arms of the 13 Confederate states and Maryland, which didn’t secede or join the Confederacy. Panel advises removal of Confederate statue at Arlington 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z While there were always some Republicans, a legacy of white mountaineers who backed the Union over the Confederacy in the Civil War, they won few elections. Georgia’s shifting politics force GOP to look beyond Atlanta 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Reconstruction-era federal prosecutors brought civil actions in court to oust officials linked to the Confederacy, and Congress in some cases refused to seat members, according to the Congressional Research Service. Judge Unseats Official Who Trespassed at Capitol on Jan. 6 as Insurrectionist 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z “These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy,” Mitch Landrieu declared, “ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for.” Moon Landrieu, New Orleans mayor who led on civil rights, dies at 92 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z A Latin inscription on the monument cites the Confederacy’s “Lost Cause” rationale for seceding. Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate monument should be removed, panel says 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z They’re focused on what comes next, and their efforts have already shaken up what locals thought they knew about Black history in the former capital of the Confederacy. Richmond’s statues fell. Now these sisters aim to lift up Black history. 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Some 130 years ago, white lawmakers gathered in Jackson, Tallahassee, Richmond and other state capitals across the former Confederacy and rewrote their state constitutions to enshrine white supremacy. Jim Crow lives again: Florida and Mississippi turn back the clock on voting rights 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z In one remarkable case, the commission pushed the boundaries of its mandate, which is to examine “commemoration of the Confederate States of America or any person who served voluntarily” with the Confederacy. Opinion | At West Point, a historical commission checks facts and takes names 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z The panel said engraved images that commemorate people who served in the Confederacy should be removed. Panel: West Point should rename Lee Barracks, nix KKK art 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Matthew Maury was one of the nation’s foremost oceanographers before the Civil War, but later sought European recognition of the Confederacy as a lobbyist. Robert E. Lee in the crosshairs as panel urges West Point, Annapolis to strip Confederate names 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Confederate symbols and dress have been embraced by white supremacists in the United States, and monuments and flags honoring the Confederacy have been removed from many public areas in recent years. EXCLUSIVE Pennsylvania candidate Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform at Army War College 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Constitution across the old Confederacy and prevent Black citizens from actually exercising their supposed new rights. Jim Crow lives again: Florida and Mississippi turn back the clock on voting rights 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Taney was not a member of the Confederacy but the chief justice of the Supreme Court who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery in the lead-up to the Civil War. Five years after removal, Confederate statues may go to L.A. 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The panel said the triptych, dedicated in 1965, should be modified to remove the names and images of Lee and others who served in the Confederacy. Panel: West Point should rename Lee Barracks, nix KKK art 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Instead, the Confederacy drafted a taxation plan that kept the Southern elite happy but in no way met the needs of the war. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Enslaved people in states that had remained within the Union, such as Maryland and Delaware were not set free, nor were they in parts of the Confederacy already occupied by the Union army. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z But Virginia was ground zero in the domestic slave trade, the heart of the Confederacy. Va. Episcopal Diocese to spend $10 million for reparations. But how? 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z This gesture of federal fealty ratified the “Southern way of life” at a time when Black Americans were being hanged, shot and burned alive before cheering crowds all over the former Confederacy. Breaking with the cult of the Confederacy 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The panel said that while the KKK image is not strictly within its Confederacy-focused mission, “there are clearly ties in the KKK to the Confederacy.” Panel: West Point should rename Lee Barracks, nix KKK art 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z One of the reasons that the Confederacy was so economically devastated was its ill-advised gamble that cotton sales would continue during the war. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z For example, during the Civil War, the Union post office refused to deliver newspapers that opposed the war or sympathized with the Confederacy, while allowing pro-war newspapers to be mailed. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z To Jackson’s right: William “Extra Billy” Smith, who served terms as governor both before and after being a general for the Confederacy. Two years after protests, some of Richmond’s Confederate statues remain 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z That myth of the noble Confederacy held sway in the American military for more than 100 years. Breaking with the cult of the Confederacy 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z “This apology validates our experiences and creates an opportunity for the church to repair relationships with Indigenous peoples across the world,” said Grand Chief George Arcand Jr., of the Confederacy of Treaty Six. Pope heads to Canada as Indigenous groups seek full apology 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Like the Confederacy, the Union turned to conscription to provide the troops needed for the war. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z When the Democrats, the party of the Confederacy, lost control of the South after the Civil War, Republicans ruled the region. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z The carpetbagger phenomenon has been around since before it was called being a carpetbagger, a moniker that emerged in the post-Civil War period when northern politicians rushed south to impose reconstruction on the defeated Confederacy. Fetterman knocks Oz with carpetbagger attacks, digs into NJ-Penn rivalry 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z If this list passes muster, Fort Bragg in North Carolina — named for the failed general Braxton Bragg, “the most hated man in the Confederacy” — would be renamed Fort Liberty. Breaking with the cult of the Confederacy 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Like the traitors of the Confederacy, Trumpists reject the idea that Black or brown people's democratic agency should have the same agency as those of white people. Jan. 6 hearings: A national civics lesson on the dangers of fascism 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Like the Confederacy, the Union also took the step of suspending habeas corpus rights, so those suspected of pro-Confederate sympathies could be arrested and held without being given the reason. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement that “there is still work to do” in removing statues that honor “men who voluntarily fought on behalf of the Confederacy.” Black educator Mary McLeod Bethune honored in Statuary Hall 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The new line demarcating anti-abortion states takes in much of the old Confederacy, then snakes up through parts of the Midwest and stretches on out to Idaho, by way of the Dakotas and Wyoming. Supreme Court draws a red line between states on abortion 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Naming a Southern military base for a Black hero who was nearly erased during the age of Jim Crow would be a highly visible way of breaking with the cult of the Confederacy. Breaking with the cult of the Confederacy 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z As historian Heather Cox Richardson has observed, the Confederacy, and its allegiance and commitment to a white supremacist order, was never fully defeated. Jan. 6 hearings: A national civics lesson on the dangers of fascism 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Breaking all past precedents in American history, both the Confederacy and the Union employed the power of their central governments to mobilize resources and citizens. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Regarding the June 17 Metro article “Fairfax may opt for route numbers in renaming roads honoring Confederacy”: Opinion | A potential lesson in critical real estate theory 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Texas seceded during the Civil War — and, with the rest of the Confederacy, was crushed. Opinion | Texas Republicans want to secede? Good riddance. 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z By the time the Virginia-born Wilson came to office, a cult of the Confederacy known as the Lost Cause had succeeded in popularizing an extravagantly racist version of Southern history. Breaking with the cult of the Confederacy 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Virginia did wind up leaving the Union, and Richmond soon became the capital of the Confederacy. The 13th Amendment nearly preserved slavery — with Lincoln’s support 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Furthermore, he feared that making the abolition of slavery an objective of the war would cause the border slave states to join the Confederacy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The state was the last in the Confederacy to receive word that the Civil War was over and that slavery had been abolished, and the last where the federal Army established its authority. What is Juneteenth and how did it become a U.S. holiday? 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, at the tail end of the United States’ great civil conflict — and the geographical tail end of the Confederacy — Union Army Maj. Opinion | Juneteenth reminds us of an often forgotten side of the liberation struggle 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z That was two months after the Confederacy surrendered in the Civil War and about 2 ½ years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in Southern states. US financial markets will be closed Monday for Juneteenth 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Although almost every state recognizes Juneteenth in some fashion, many have been slow to do more than issue a proclamation or resolution, even as some continue to commemorate the Confederacy. Despite push, states slow to make Juneteenth a paid holiday 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z During the first two years of the Civil War—when it appeared that the Confederacy was a formidable opponent—President Lincoln grew concerned that a Union defeat could result in the westward expansion of slavery. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z It would also earmark $1 million to the Army so it can rename installations and streets that bear the name of former leaders of the Confederacy. House Democrats roll out early defense budget proposals ahead of looming fight 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z After the Confederacy fell, Collins married and reunited with his mother and grandmother in Alabama. How a Black family's Bible ended up at the Smithsonian Institution 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Only in the last two decades has the existence of these pensions been trotted out to argue that enslaved people fought for the Confederacy in any meaningful sense. Trumpism without Trump: Maybe he's beginning to fade — but the danger to democracy isn't 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z The provision was enacted after the Civil War to prevent members of Congress who had fought for the Confederacy from returning to Congress. Federal judge refuses to bar 3 Wisconsin Republicans from 2022 ballot 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z They also found ample evidence that the British had supplied the Western Confederacy with weapons, despite the stipulations of earlier treaties. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z If lacrosse is selected, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which will compete in Alabama and at the Women’s World Championship in Maryland in late June, could be allowed to field men’s and women’s teams. Pro lacrosse season begins as sport’s leaders eye Olympics 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z The decision is part of a broader push to remove statues and other symbols that idealize the Confederacy, given its role in defending slavery. Big country music festival bans Confederate flags 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z States' rights, not slavery, was the cause of secession and the establishment of the Confederacy and thus of the Civil War. Trumpism without Trump: Maybe he's beginning to fade — but the danger to democracy isn't 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z “Any attempt to retain symbols of the Confederacy, whether blatant or implied, is an insult to the service of Black Americans,” he wrote in an email to the Baltimore Sun. Division’s blue-gray patch might get the ax 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z In the western campaign, the goal of both the Union and the Confederacy was to gain control of the major rivers in the west, especially the Mississippi. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In the Giffords Law Center’s list of the 20 states with the toughest gun laws, only Virginia, which tightened its statutes recently, was part of the old Confederacy. Opinion | The gun debate is paralyzed by our past 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z The commitment it made, in law, was to “remove all names, symbols, displays, monuments” honoring the Confederacy and Confederates no later than Jan. 1, 2024. Opinion | Work to scrub the Confederate stain from military bases is off to a good start 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The Confederacy had no chance of winning, but did the best it could with its limited resources. Trumpism without Trump: Maybe he's beginning to fade — but the danger to democracy isn't 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Army bases that currently honor the Confederacy and Confederate leaders. U.S. commission recommends renaming nine Army bases to strip Confederate legacy 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Upriver, Union naval forces also bombarded Fort Pillow, forty miles from Memphis, Tennessee, a Southern industrial center and one of the largest cities in the Confederacy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Researchers found that homes on houses with street names that referenced the Confederacy sold for 3 percent less on average than streets with neutral names. Opinion | A Confederate street name could cost you 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z “Not only did Robert E. Lee lead some of the Confederacy’s most consequential victories in their fight to protect slavery; he was also a traitor to his own country,” Mr. Brannan said. Brooklyn Street Named for Robert E. Lee Now Honors Black War Hero 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Monuments to fallen Confederate soldiers and the United Daughters of the Confederacy could remain untouched in the local cemetery. A civil war among neighbors over Confederate-themed streets 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z He frequently channels the white supremacist Lost Cause narrative, with its claims that the treasonous war of the Confederacy for the "right" to keep Black people in bondage was somehow noble and honorable. Buffalo: This is where Donald Trump's race-war fantasies lead 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Both the Confederacy and the Union governments had to continue to grow in order to manage the logistics of recruiting men and maintaining, feeding, and equipping an army. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Statues of Lee, who led Confederate troops in the Civil War, have been toppled and removed from New Orleans to Richmond, Virginia, the erstwhile capital of the Confederacy. Historians see Grant eclipsing Lee in 200th birthday celebrations 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Consider how the Confederacy banned books such as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” for portraying slavery in a negative way. Opinion | Banning books about Black and LGBTQ people isn’t protecting America’s youths 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z “We are not responsible for this history,” Kimura said about Virginia’s role in the Confederacy. A civil war among neighbors over Confederate-themed streets 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z He argued that the 14th Amendment was meant to bar any “direct, overt act of insurrection to overthrow the United States government,” such as the Confederacy marshaling troops. Greene says she can’t remember if she urged Trump to impose martial law 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z With a stated goal of bolstering national security in the fledgling republic, this change meant that the Confederacy could arrest and detain indefinitely any suspected enemy without giving a reason. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Ratified shortly after the Civil War, it aimed to keep representatives who had fought for the Confederacy from returning to Congress. Hearing to be held in Rep. Green eligibility challenge 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The statue was erected in February 1920 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s Louisiana division and Gordon chapter, nearly 55 years after the Civil War ended. Louisiana parish votes to remove Confederate monument 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z He said the amendment was “intended to apply to the leading and most influential characters of the Confederacy engaged in rebellion.” Judge mulls lawsuit seeking to kick Trump backers off ballot 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z A group of Georgia voters earlier this year launched an effort to disqualify Greene from running based on a post-Civil War constitutional provision that banned members of the Confederacy from holding office. Federal judge greenlights challenge to disqualify Marjorie Taylor Greene from re-election 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Dissent within the Confederacy also affected the South’s ability to fight the war. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The college, whose cadets fought and died for the Confederacy, did not admit its first Black students until 1968 and its first women until 1997. VMI alumni push to reverse diversity reforms, invoking critical race theory 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Lest the Confederacy open a maritime Pacific front, Czar Alexander II put one of his naval squadrons at Abraham Lincoln’s disposal. Russia’s Jamestown in America — and the oligarch who has helped fund it 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Day by day, Avlon shows the life draining from the Confederacy and Lincoln’s rising joy that the Union would endure. Review | Lessons from Lincoln’s leadership at the close of the Civil War 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z According to Mississippi Free Press, the Republican governor released a proclamation highlighting the checkered history of the Confederacy. Mississippi Governor designates April as Confederate heritage month 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In August 1861, legislators approved the Confiscation Act of 1861, empowering the Union to seize property, including the enslaved, used by the Confederacy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “Heritage of Confederacy is treason and slavery. We should learn from those things just maybe not in way he imagines.” Mississippi gov again proclaims Confederate Heritage Month 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z As he has done repeatedly, Donald Trump summoned up the demons of Jim Crow and the Confederacy. Another Trump hate rally: The threats get worse, and polite America turns away 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z As Talbot County prepared to remove Maryland’s last public monument to the Confederacy, some at a recent public meeting drew whoops and cheers by calling the decision “horrific” and a sign of “unrelenting hatred.” Slaveowners’ names adorn D.C. buildings. The grand effort to change that is dead. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The Confederacy seized $6 million in gold from federal customs houses, and $15 million more poured into Confederate coffers from bond sales to patriotic White Southerners touched with the enthusiasm of secession’s first days. Review | The Civil War’s financial battles 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Predictably, Confederate leaders raged against the proclamation, reinforcing their commitment to fight to maintain slavery, the foundation of the Confederacy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z |
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