| 单词 | Confederate |
| 例句 | In the public’s view, Lincoln's killing had been a rare event, perpetrated by Confederates enraged about the South's defeat in the Civil War and fearful of Lincoln's actions in the aftermath. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A single Confederate agent, nearly penniless, had just frustrated the frantic pursuit by thousands of men being directed from Washington by Secretary of War Stanton. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “The men rose, all together, like a piece of mechanism, kneeling on their right knees and their faces set with an expression that meant—everything,” a Confederate officer will write. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In August, Admiral Farragut had led his fleet in the torpedo-infested waters of Mobile Bay to capture the Confederate Tennessee, said to be one of the most powerful warships afloat. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Some have nothing to do with Lincoln’s death, like James Pumphrey, the Confederate- sympathizing owner of a stable, who spent a month behind bars. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Three years of combat experience tells Washburn that he is in trouble; Confederate cavalrymen have found his infantry. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Despite growing up around images of the Confederate South and working in the Deep South for many years, I was pretty shaken by the symbols. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The fugitives had passed through the previous day with a small group of Confederate veterans. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z For several years after the war's end, federal soldiers were stationed in the former Confederate states. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The dream of an independent Confederate States of America had long since died. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z At Petersburg, the Confederate lines are arranged in a jagged horseshoe, facing south— thirty-seven miles of trenches and fortifications in all. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights activism and new federal laws inspired the same resistance to racial progress and once again led to a spike in the use of Confederate imagery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As the soldier gallops back to Lee, small patrols of Union infantry march to the front and prepare to probe the Confederate lines for vulnerability. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The Texan yells for his Confederate cavalry to counterattack. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Just the way Grandpa planned it, all the stores closed that day, and folks white and colored lined North Main and South Main, waving their Confederate flags. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Like all Confederate sympathizers, Booth views the Tennessee politician as a turncoat for siding with the Union and Lincoln. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z As the Confederates attempted to take control of Kentucky, a border state between North and South, Garfield was assigned to help push them out. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Davis and the Confederate government must abandon the city or risk capture. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In this way, he slowly works his way up the Confederate line. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z America will continue to be divided into a North and a South, a United States of America and a Confederate States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z To pull off this plan, he needed loyal Confederate agents and safe houses located at points along the route. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas Jones was a Confederate Secret Service veteran who had spent his entire life trailblazing through the fields, thickets, and forests of rural Maryland and navigating its streams, marshes, and rivers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z About a hundred white spectators looked on from the side of the road, laughing and hollering, waving a Confederate flag. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweeping down from the high ground, General Meade’s infantry pounces on the terrified Confederates, who abandon their wagons and race into the woods on foot. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Custer is the youngest and most aggressive, a blond-haired dynamo—he had roomed with the Confederate Thomas Rosser at West Point. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z For example, the song “Goober Peas” provides students a very inside look at the life of a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He’s worked it so the Confederates would fire the first round, and he’s fixed it so they fired on hungry men. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z During the Civil War, several Southern military officers, as well as a handful of officials in the Confederate Secret Service, considered plots against Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the front walked a man holding a Confederate flag. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Lee crosses and burns the bridge behind him, his escape into North Carolina and the heart of Confederate territory will be complete, and the dreadful war will continue. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z After I’m done with the bear, I dust the fancy books nobody reads, the Confederate coat buttons, the silver pistol. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He’s got documents and ledgers detailing sales from here all through the Confederate states, Cuba, and throughout South America.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I wrapped a skimpy towel around my waist and danced and pranced out of the bathroom and up the hall like I was a Union ship dodging Confederate mines. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There are letters from Confederate soldiers lying on a Federal desk, strategically placed antique spectacles and handkerchiefs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Up by the post office, the old oak tree, the Confederate Tree, they called it, was going to be a gallows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Duchess purses her lips and hands me the Confederate sword I’d been using. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z On April 3, 1865, Richmond, Virginia, capital city of the Confederate States of America, fell to Union forces. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “What was it that made the ragtag little Confederate Army the last of its kind? What made it so weak, but so powerful it worked miracles?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It came time for Miss Brown to present her piano students at a recital held every year at the Confederate Heroes Hall in Lockhart. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The bus came and we went down the hill to Tim Miller’s house, where the Confederate flag flew on a pole in the backyard, but he didn’t get on. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He expected more good news about the surrender of additional Confederate armies. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Custer leads the Union cavalry on their search-and-destroy mission against the Confederate column. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In this way, the Confederate race to North Carolina will stop dead in its tracks. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Grant’s telegram states that Sheridan has ridden over the battlefield, counting Confederate dead and captured, particularly the many top Confederate generals now in Union custody. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z They searched the house and found evidence: photographs of Confederate generals, one of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, some ammunition, and a photo of John Wilkes Booth, hidden behind a picture frame. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z During the war, the Alabaman fought in several major battles, was wounded at Gettysburg, successfully escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp, and worked for the Confederate Secret Service. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The first Confederate flag, the Stars and Bars, was adopted on March 4, 1861. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Not long after he got the top of his head shot off in the Battle of Chickamauga, Cudn Vanna married an Englishman, a blockade-runner for the Confederates. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He lost $2,300 owed to him for three years of service, along with all the money he had invested in Confederate bonds at the beginning of the war. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of writing a story about him until John told me the same bum had come up to him a month ago and said his name was Confederate. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Secretary of State William H. Seward, whose oppressive policies toward the South have long made him a target of Confederate anger, is on Booth’s list as well. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But, has any one of you faced a Confederate bullet? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z After the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, Garfield grasped what the future held. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z News of victory also came from the Shenandoah Valley, where gallant, steel-nerved Phil Sheridan had defeated the Confederate General Early at Cedar Creek. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the bands came a big cotton wagon draped with Confederate bunting and pulled by a double team of mules. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z On April 12, 1861, Confederate cannons in Charleston, South Carolina, fired on the U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter in the harbor. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Lillian spoke of the Old South when Bull was in earshot as though it were a private garden deeded to her in a last heroic proclamation by the Confederate Congress. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Letters and memoirs of Confederate soldiers will reflect this dreadful campaign. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I noticed for the first time that he had a Confederate flag tattooed on his arm. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A number of Confederate deserters were captured by the Union forces, and they said that another Confederate general, James Longstreet, had come to Lee’s defense with massive reinforcements. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Most of the trikes and raptors had been sent down south to fight the Confederates, but every once in a while she’d see one of those too. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The rebels draw the bluecoats in as they link up with the other Confederate force defending the bridge. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z A combination saloon, inn, and post office—not unlike Surratt’s tavern—it was known among Confederate sympathizers as a reliable safe house and place to exchange information. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It is, in the mind of one Confederate soldier, “the crudest marching order the commanders had ever given the men in four years of fighting.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Next to a giant red cross was a small wooden table and on it were a folded Confederate flag, a Bible, a glass bottle, and an unsheathed sword. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Nowhere in the North was there a general who looked and acted the part as did the Confederates’ Lee and Jackson. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadrach studied his sketch and added a row of x’s to represent the Confederates. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I hold the Confederate flag to my face. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z After leaving Mudd’s house, they find temporary refuge a few miles down the road at Rich Hills, the home of Samuel Cox, a former Confederate captain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Confederate Memorial Day was declared a state holiday in Alabama at the turn of the century, soon after whites rewrote the state constitution to ensure white supremacy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He would trade Lincoln for Confederate prisoners of war, or attempt to use his captive as leverage to give the South an advantage in peace negotiations. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He promised, too, that a Confederate state could return to the Union whenever ten percent of its voters should reestablish a loyal Union government within that state. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Worse news, the patrol had seen the Confederates watching them from the ridge overlooking the ferry. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Confederate President Jefferson Davis was on the run, the subject of his own massive manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She used to tell about a Confederate soldier from Cold Sassy who got sent to Andersonville to guard Yankee prisoners and passed away in the smallpox epidemic there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The Confederate capital is now in Union hands. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z For his own safety, Lee must return to the Confederate lines. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Finally, at twelve fifteen, a lone Union officer and his Confederate escort arrive to see Lee. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z One of the bridges actually collapses from the weight, and the Confederate advance comes to an abrupt halt. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The Confederates dig in immediately, knowing that more fighting is imminent. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Lee jots a quick note intended for Grant and hands it to a Confederate soldier, who gallops toward the Union lines under a white flag. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In front of the domed courthouse someone had stuck a Confederate flag in the mouth of their public cannon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He had Abraham Lincoln, back in the White House, counting on him to hold off the Confederate march toward Washington. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Looks like we got ourselves a bit of a Confederate standoff,” I say, ignoring the voice inside that urges me to hurry. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Herold gave the soldiers false names and claimed he and Booth were on their way to join up with the Confederates themselves. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s just a pity that a bee got under Miss Love’s dust veil about time she crept the car around the Confederate monument. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Toot Withers took his place, riding a high-stepping white stallion, and waving a sword in one hand and a big Confederate flag in the other. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his government have not been captured. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He was to be paid handsomely to smuggle the bound-and-gagged Lincoln into the hands of the Confederates. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Confederate sympathizer Thomas Jones calls out to them in a low voice, announcing that he is walking into their camp. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The Confederate generals were Lee and Stonewall Jackson, together with James Longstreet, who brought up reinforcements that saved the day for the Confederates. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z For now, his plan is to capture the Confederates, not to kill them. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z By the time Piper sent her Iris-message warning them about the Roman attack, they were already halfway back to the ship, having been chased through downtown Charleston by a pack of angry dead Confederates. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He even has a tiny Confederate one he probably thinks we don’t notice. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Scott offered Lee command of the new army being formed to fight the Confederates, which also meant Lee would be promoted to brigadier general. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Confederate flag license plates are everywhere in the South, but some of the bumper stickers were new to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z That night, he had stood alone on the top deck of a steamboat called the River Queen, watching Grant’s big guns shell the Confederate defenders of Petersburg. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Eleven southern states seceded from the United States, forming the Confederate States of America. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There were rumors that the Confederate General Hood had encountered Sherman and had cut the Army of the Tennessee to pieces, but they were unconfirmed rumors. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The silver-and-white capitol building was flying the Alabama state flag and the stars and bars of the Confederate banner. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z They are now hiding in the house of the physician and Confederate sympathizer Dr. Samuel Mudd, whose farm is about twenty-five miles south of Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The hill is grassy, but the site of the Confederate stand is toward the back of the rise, under the cover of broom sedge and pine shrubs. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z About 1,200 Confederate horsemen wait to attack Washburn’s cavalry and infantry, which together number slightly more than 800—but only about 80 of those are cavalry. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Only a strip of the river between Baton Rouge and Vicksburg was then under Confederate control. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not inspire the South to fight on, prolong the Civil War, or win the battles the Confederate armies had lost. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was Confederate General Bragg in Tennessee, who must face “Old Rosy” before the snows fell. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to ask if being born in the South or living in Alabama made me a Confederate American, but I thought better of it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was founded in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War by six former Confederate soldiers in Pulaski, Tennessee. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Lee knew if he didn’t defend Petersburg, the road to the Confederate capital of Richmond would be wide open. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I pointed out Grandpa’s medal from the Confederate Veterans’ Reunion in 1875. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Among its regional leaders were five former Confederate generals; its staunchest supporters were the plantation owners for whom Reconstruction posed an economic and political nightmare. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In front of it all, we put two scuttles of dusty coal and a faded half-furled Confederate flag, saved last year when Cold Sassy’s old wooden schoolhouse burned down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Her father told her stories of how the recently emancipated black people were essentially re-enslaved by former Confederate officers and soldiers, who used violence, intimidation, lynching, and peonage to keep African Americans subordinate and marginalized. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, technology startups, software companies, media conglomerates, and so forth are reluctant to set up shop in a town named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z North of New York, Canada was a major base of operations for the Confederate Secret Service. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z By January 1863, Garfield—healthy again—was ordered back in the field to battle the Confederates. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Like her son, the attractive forty-year-old widow is a Confederate sympathizer who has been involved with spying and smuggling weapons. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z They approached the square, where the Confederate soldier gazed with empty eyes beneath his marble hand in wind and weather. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In that instant, the Confederate force is overcome by righteous indignation. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Then, the ultimate prize: a porcelain cherub holding a Confederate flag with “Heritage Not, Hate” painted beneath. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The Confederates asked for their rendition under the terms of the Fugitive Slave Law, but they were informed by General Butler that “under the peculiar circumstances, he considered the fugitives ‘contraband’ of war.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 To Lewis Powell, the former Confederate spy who watched Lincoln’s speech with Booth, will go the task of killing Secretary Seward, who, at age sixty-three, is currently bedridden after a near- fatal carriage accident. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Sentiment: Expresses the living conditions of Confederate soldiers and the public, as the war was lost. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Clarisse pulled a wet Confederate dollar from her pocket and sighed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The actor, still masquerading as a Confederate soldier, commented on his own crime and analyzed for the Garretts the motives of Lincoln’s killer! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Grant watches the bridges—they are packed with Confederate soldiers. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Arnold, a thirty-one-year-old Confederate army veteran and former schoolmate of Booth’s, was arrested based on a tip. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee and a small group of aides ride to a spot between the Union and Confederate lines. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Now, this is the Confederate line, Jeth, beginning over here in eastern Kentucky.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ready!” comes the cry from the Confederate lines. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z And this time Union soldiers sprint up the hill, overrunning the Confederate positions. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “I’d like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 Kyle went with the Redneck: woodland camouflage shirt, overalls, trucker hat with a Confederate flag patch, dingy cowboy boots. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “The ghosts of defeated causes are bound to serve you. And the museum in Charleston has plenty of Confederate ghosts. We’ll need you to keep them in line.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Even though he became a justice of the peace after the war, the tight-lipped former member of the Confederate Secret Service was ever after wary of persecution for aiding the conspirators. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Led by South Carolina, a total of eleven slaveholding states in the South have left the Union and formed a separate nation, the Confederate States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But then another Confederate force counterattacks, pushing Custer out of the town. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Booth assumed that the day would unfold as the latest in a blur of days that had begun on April 3 when the Confederate capital, Richmond, fell to the Union. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Maryland was as Confederate as a state could be without actually seceding. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z To put down the Confederate rebellion, the president required votes in Congress from men who would back the needs of the military. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z During the Civil War, as Atlanta smoldered, Root’s father had smuggled him to Liverpool, England, aboard a Confederate blockade-runner. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Stoner was a virulent anti-Semite, whose Confederate flag vest delighted C.P. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “The island in the harbor. That’s where the first fighting of the Civil War happened. The Confederates shelled the Union troops and took the fort.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “So the Romans fought on the Confederate side? As a girl whose grandmother was a slave, can I just say...not cool?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After many disappointments, they had crossed safely south and found loyal Confederate comrades. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing the cavalry, Confederate officers call an immediate retreat. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Some of the men wave white handkerchiefs, mocking the Confederates, jeering that they should surrender. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Lieutenant Dana had led his troops into Bryantown, a well-known place of Confederate intrigue, commandeered the tavern, and occupied the town. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Jones was a valuable and mysterious secret agent operating along the watery borders between Union and Confederate territory. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He attempted to recruit accomplices in New York City, a place where there were many Lincoln-haters and Confederate sympathizers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On it are written the keys to top-secret coded Confederate messages that link him with Jefferson Davis’s office in Richmond and with the million-dollar gold fund in Montreal. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z When Confederate troops fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, Lincoln had no choice but to go to war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He pretended he was an enthusiastic militant Confederate eager to continue to fight the war, wherever it was. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay. How many of you were thrown off by the Confederate flags?” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Other Confederate armies remained in the field in some Southern states. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After raiding a museum full of Confederate ghosts, Leo didn’t think his day could get any worse. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Because in addition to the parking lot full of vehicles with Confederate flag emblems on them, the looks coming at us from the people said vehicles belong to? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Confederate and Union officers are renewing old friendships. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Michael O’Laughlen, a twenty-eight-year-old childhood friend of Booth’s, another former Confederate soldier and participant in the kidnapping plot, was also arrested on the seventeenth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Lincoln steps past the sentry boxes, grasps the wrought-iron railing, and marches up the steps into the Confederate White House. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Richmond is gone, and with it the Confederate leadership. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He later participated in military campaigns by the Union army to defeat the Confederates in Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan cloaked themselves in the symbols of the Confederate South to intimidate and victimize thousands of black people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Stanton believed that the Lincoln and Seward assassinations had exposed a Confederate plot to kill the leaders of the national government in an attempt to reverse the results of the Civil War. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He had turned away from Richmond, and now, for the first time during the war, a Confederate army was penetrating into the North, into Shadrach’s home state of Pennsylvania. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It is his final chance to keep the Confederate struggle alive. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Baker learned something else that interested him: Booth was now in the company of three Confederate soldiers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanton and others were certain Booth was merely an agent of a Confederate conspiracy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Eb thought the Confederate General Pemberton, up in Vicksburg, was beginning to sweat, and that was fine—but the mosquitoes were awful, and lots of the boys were sick with malaria. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The Confederate attempt to destroy supplies and arms to keep them out of the approaching Union army’s hands has escalated out of control. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere we went, dead Confederate sailors stared at us, their ghostly bearded feces shimmering over their skulls. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Their contact, a former Confederate agent, Mrs. Quesenberry, had a place about half an hour away on foot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Confederate president had set aside more than $1 million in gold to pay for acts of espionage and intrigue against the Union and kept a portion of the money in Canada. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But this problem rather pales in comparison to the other problem, which is that both T-shirts are embossed with huge Confederate flags. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z For a hundred years, any sign of black progress in the South could trigger a white reaction that would invariably invoke Confederate symbols and talk of resistance. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Yet the majority of hate-crime offenders don’t fit the stereotype of the squinting, bristle-headed loner with a swastika tattoo or a Confederate flag T-shirt. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z T-shirts emblazoned with stern eagles in Confederate uniforms and “American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The Confederate flag is stuck to the wound now, so I no longer need to hold it there. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z In the first of what will be many firefights on this day, small bands of Union soldiers begin shooting at the Confederate rear guard. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The actor feels perfectly at home at Pumphrey’s, for the owner is known to be a Confederate sympathizer. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He would take the tyrant Lincoln, who had freed the slaves, south to the Confederate capital of Richmond. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Davis had been a Confederate scout during the Civil War when he came face to face during battle with a scout from the Union army. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Confederate states chose to secede from the United States rather than let the federal government, led by Lincoln, limit slavery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The Battle of Gettysburg had the largest concentration of Confederate artillery, 150 guns. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Confederate flags were proudly displayed throughout the region, boldly and defiantly marking the cultural, social, and political landscape. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Board of Education, that many Southern states erected Confederate flags atop their state government buildings. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Pumphrey may be a Confederate sympathizer, but he has no qualms about making money off this night of Union celebration. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z His infantry lie on their bellies and peer across at Confederate cavalry. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In September 1862, President Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring freedom for slaves in the Confederate states as of January 1, 1863. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After earlier negotiations had broken down, Confederate President Jefferson Davis had ordered Johnston to retreat while the politicians held out for more favorable terms of surrender. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In the Confederates’ attempt to rush across the bridges, the wagons become tangled. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z On the opposite side was the Alabama flag, sporting red bars crossed diagonally against a white field, fixed in the same pattern as the stars and bars of the Confederate flag. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The seceding Confederate states fought for their independence. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Grant says that he expects word from Sherman any minute, saying that General Joe Johnston and his Confederate army in North Carolina—its last army—has finally surrendered. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z We had a brand-new brick school now, and a brand-new Confederate flag out there on the stage. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The Confederate cannons are no match for Custer’s horsemen. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z If Maryland had seceded and become the twelfth star on the Confederate flag, the Union would have been in grave danger. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Following the swearing-in of Andrew Johnson as the seventeenth president, Stanton had issued a reward for Jefferson Davis and other Confederate officials, naming them as assassination conspirators. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have never seen such an effect, physical and moral, produced by the utterance of one word,” marvels the Confederate major. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He had his straw hat across his chest like folks do when a Confederate veteran’s funeral procession passes on its way to the graveyard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She and a few of her undead sailors uncovered one of the two emergency rowboats while Scylla’s heads rained from the sky like a meteor shower with teeth, picking off Confederate sailors one after another. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The trip, the Confederate truck, the harassment from the guard, and now a request for a milkshake—this was becoming a bizarre day. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was a Democrat, a Baptist, and a devout Confederate veteran. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Lewis Powell—who also goes by the name Lewis Payne—is a twenty-year-old who served as a Confederate soldier and spy before joining Booth’s cause. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In February, the states that had seceded formed a new union called the Confederate States of America. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He would ride south to join a Confederate army still in the field. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the same room on the same date in 1861, one hundred and four years earlier, President Abraham Lincoln had signed a bill freeing slaves impressed into the service of the Confederate army. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z A thin man dressed like a Confederate soldier. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Knowing they are outgunned, the Confederates retreat back to their positions, only to be surrounded as the Union force quickly counterattacks. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Army was all tangled up trying to hold off the Confederates down south. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Herold rode into the nearby town of Bowling Green with the Confederates to purchase, of all things, a new pair of shoes. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Confederate monuments, memorials, and imagery proliferated throughout the South during the Civil Rights Era. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In the early hours of Black Easter, Booth and Herold sought their salvation: not in a church, but at the door of a loyal Confederate. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Confederate forts had been taken on November 7, 1861, and Port Royal and St. Helena were being used by the Union Army as supply stations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The Confederates thus outnumbered Rosecrans’ army by as many as twenty thousand, and they handed a terrible defeat to the army that had so cheerfully set out upon its march in June. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Civil War broke out, he ran off from his master and groped his way through the Confederate lines to the North. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Eaten by Confederate soldiers during the war when rail lines were cut off, making food and rations scarce. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The Confederates had seen the patrol crossing the Rappahannock on the ferry. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In Hilly’s parlor, a portrait of a Confederate general hangs eight feet tall. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z As angry Confederates said, with some exaggeration, repeating rifles were “rifles you load on Sunday and fire all week.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z With the Civil War drawing to a close, he needed a Constitutional amendment to certify the abolition of slavery in all the states, Union as well as Confederate. Lincoln: Spielberg’s Urgent Civics Lesson 2012-11-08T13:00:50Z Mr. Noah asked Roy Wood Jr., a correspondent on “The Daily Show,” to share his take on the recent protests by white nationalists and other far-right groups against the removal of Confederate monuments. Trump Looks Directly at the Eclipse, and Conan O’Brien Spies an Opening 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Packer told Deadline that the controversy surrounding “Confederate” pressured him to divulge the upcoming project. Amid HBO’s “Confederate” fallout, Amazon introduces alt-history show “Black America” 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Just earlier this week, a group of Colorado high schoolers became national news after they posted a photo on Facebook of themselves on prom night, holding guns and surrounding a Confederate flag. 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 Elizabeth, born in 1881, became a celebrated orator on the Confederate circuit, extolling aging veterans as “grand old men who guarded with your lives the virgin whiteness of our Georgia.” The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Atkinson marketed the cyclorama as “the only Confederate victory ever painted.” A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z To narrate the travails of this Mississippi-born Confederate mistress in 2018 is far from easy, so Frazier leaps what might have been an insurmountable narrative hurdle with a widower named James Blake. The First Lady of the Confederacy Considers Her Painful Past 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z “The Union of My Confederate Parts,” the final play in this trilogy, returns us to the cabin in Texas where Penny and Homer still live. ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Dixie Beer, the 113-year-old brewery in New Orleans, announced in June that it would retire its name, which evokes the South of the Confederate era. The Beer Industry Looks for Ways to Help Black Brewers 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z When this man couldn’t say the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s name without using a racial slur, it became a lot harder to take him seriously on the significance of the Confederate flag. Trevor Noah Can’t Keep Up with Trump’s Mixed Messages 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Retailers like Walmart and Amazon stopped selling Confederate themed merchandise last week, so it’s surprising that TV Land only decided to shelve the series today. They finally got them Duke boys! TV Land pulls “Dukes of Hazzard” reruns over Confederate flag uproar 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Surely there’s a difference between displaying a multitude of American flags, including one Confederate model shunted off to the side lawn, and hanging one from the tippity top of a municipal building. Social Q’s : Thy Neighbor’s Flag - Social Q’s 2013-01-24T19:59:27Z After the decisive defeat, Confederate troops retreated to Virginia, ending Lee’s campaign into Pennsylvania. 36 Hours in Gettysburg, Pa. 2013-06-27T23:20:01Z In the past he has appeared in blackface for a Halloween costume and worn T-shirts onstage with the Confederate battle flag. Jason Aldean, Decrying ‘Cancel Culture,’ Has a No. 2 Hit 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z One of his favorite pictures is of the Sons of Confederate Veterans dressed in uniforms and holding their battle standard. To photograph America’s diversity, he visited 64 locales all named Columbia 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z It wasn't much easier for Burns — famous for his patriotic documentary films about the Civil War, national parks and, most recently, the Roosevelts — to accept his Confederate past. For Henry Louis Gates Jr., a lifelong interest in family history in 'Finding Your Roots' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z A gold seal read “Black Confederates, the History of the South,” and on the man’s shirt was printed the name H. K. Edgerton. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z To extend the season, 'Madison' Confederate jasmine is tied to the gutters and then strung along copper wire above. Atlanta Cottage Garden 2013-05-13T15:50:05.423Z His choices were notably hit-and-miss, but his very first appointee from a Confederate state proved to be one of his best. President Clinton Looks Back at President Grant 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Last year, he warned a black former state legislator that she would not be “met with torches but something a lot more definitive” if she continued to call for the removal of Confederate statues. Georgia lawmaker refuses to resign after using racial slur on Baron Cohen show 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Somebody's got their Confederate flag waving and it's a lot more evident for me. How to survive—and thrive—in "The Heartbreak Years" 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Collection of 18th- and 19th-century buildings, including a debtors prison, courthouse and a Confederate monument. A Father-Son Fishing Trip on the Chesapeake Bay 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In any case, legend places Albert at dozens of battles during his three years at war, and at one point it's said he escaped from a Confederate prison by overpowering a guard and fleeing. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Kidd, who fought on the Confederate side, travels from place to place, peddling a mix of diversion and information. ‘News of the World’ Review: Tom Hanks Does the Strong, Silent Type 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z She says she often saw Confederate flags and heard racial slurs while walking to and from the farm. Planting a life — and a future — after prison at Benevolence Farm 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z The hubbub over the Jefferson statue comes amid several controversies around the country this year concerning public monuments depicting Southern and Confederate leaders. Thomas Jefferson statue incites debate at Mizzou 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z In this case, the president wondered whether the removal of a statue of Confederate leader Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville — where white supremacists clashed this weekend with counterprotesters — would lead to the teardown of others. Whataboutism: The Cold War tactic, thawed by Putin, is brandished by Donald Trump 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z In the shadow of his massive addition, Wiley told The Associated Press about his thoughts on Confederate monuments, if he’s become more political and where he goes from here. Artist Kehinde Wiley on what we can do with offensive art 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The Confederate prisoners were later memorialised on the island, but not the black Union soldiers. New US poet laureate announced 2012-06-07T15:51:40Z The cover was actually a photograph by William Eggleston, celebrated chronicler of the southern American landscape whose work often incorporates Confederate flags, overtly or covertly. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z An earlier version of this article misstated the surname of a Confederate guerrilla leader. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The Confederate flag still prompts passionate protest but today’s preferred theatre of combat is the movie one. The Beguiled: how Hollywood is whitewashing the US civil war 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Is there a way to be a proud Southerner while refusing to embrace hateful symbols like the Confederate flag? Comics writer Jason Aaron talks “Star Wars,” “The Punisher” and “Southern Bastards”: “The Confederate flag has no place flying over the state capital” 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z For every “Confederate Memorial Day” there are concrete instances of people working actively to change the culture and image of the state. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z 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 An August rally organized by white nationalists to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee became deadly when a counter-protester was killed by a car driven into a crowd. Dave Matthews harnesses local roots with Concert for Charlottesville 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Is a kitsch painted nameplate, bearing the name Donald and decorated with Confederate flags, real or imagined? The Colors of American Patriotism in the Age of Trump 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Union troops hid here to evade capture during the town’s brief Confederate occupation, only for a rainstorm on 4 July to flood its banks. A 'perfect storm' for the paranormal: touring America's most haunted town 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The painting "Ho" is a bit more conceptual in nature and features randomly chosen letters placed around two Confederate flags. Confederate flag paintings to go on display at Laguna Art Museum 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z That’s when I started thinking not only about Confederate monuments, but also about Woody Allen and Michael Jackson. Review: In ‘I Married an Angel,’ a 1930s Musical Falls to Earth 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Confederate monuments across the country have fallen in recent years amid debate over whether they are proud monuments to Southern heritage or hated symbols of racism and the era of slavery. Protesters in Virginia cover Confederate monument with trash bags 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Other locales have also been navigating the transition away from Confederate street names. When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z So let’s look at and remember the facts — a white man opened fire in a black church and murdered nine people, in a state where the Confederate flag still flies over the capitol. Call it what it is: The Charleston shooting is domestic terrorism 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z 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 He and his general contracting company, Team Henry Enterprises, have hauled away 15 pieces of Confederate statuary in Richmond and a total of 23 monuments across the Southeast in less than two years. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z We went over a very narrow bridge and then drove through a crazy trailer park with wisps of smoke coming out of the trailers and Confederate flags in the window. | Sandra Bernhard on How She Plans to Ring in the New Year 2013-12-23T20:13:06Z “If you’re going to censor Confederate Railroad because it’s offensive to people, then censor the other entertainer with the depiction of a dead president that many people here love.” Illinois cancels band from fair lineup over Confederate flag 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Matthew Shepherd, of Matthew’s Chocolates in Hillsborough, said he grew frustrated with a group that gathers outside his shop in the downtown area to wave Confederate flags. Chocolate shop sells out of sweets after offering deal to anyone who burns Confederate Flag 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The Lincoln Memorial and a Confederate statue: See, very fine people on both sides! Style Invitational Week 1394: Two movies, one line 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z When the Civil War erupted in 1861, the Rangers sided with the Confederates. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z And yet the country remains bitterly divided over the war’s legacy: Witness a photograph by Ms. Le of two bronze memorials commemorating the Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Troubled Turf: The Photographs of An-My Le 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Following the dad’s advice, I drove up to Fort Clinch State Park and to its namesake 19th-century fort, which did stints under both the Union and Confederate flags during the Civil War. Frugal Traveler: A Post-Spring Break Jaunt to Florida's Beaches 2011-04-19T21:52:22Z The clerk on my first visit to Dixie Outfitters was a friendly middle-aged woman, whose T-shirt featured a golden retriever puppy wearing a Confederate flag bandanna. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z Now when some people see a solitary Confederate soldier standing on a pedestal in a public area, they see historic and important artwork that should not be taken down because of the risk of history-washing. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Cities across the country are reconsidering monuments of all stripes, from paeans to Confederate generals to triumphal depictions of colonialists. Why a Russian billionaire wants to buy controversial statues that were taken down 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z In the announcement for “Confederate,” they said they had been discussing the idea for several years and had considered pursuing it as a feature film before bringing it to HBO. ‘Confederate’ Poses Test Over Race for ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators and HBO 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z A Virginia family has male members on both sides of the conflict, but even the Confederate marks the firing on Ft. 'The Man in the High Castle' is Amazon's only good new show 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z His real-life character: Newton Knight, a Mississippi farmer turned Confederate Army deserter who led his own armed rebellion, announcing that Jones County had seceded from the secession. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z It’s not an affectation — well, except that time I got myself invited to a South Carolina state senator’s house to see his Confederate flag. Lonnae O’Neal: Why I sometimes sound blacker than others 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Paisley begins the song with an anecdote about a black man taking offense to his Confederate flag T-shirt. A country song, assumptions _ and a racial outcry 2013-04-11T20:44:08Z Of course, what’s true of Southern pride can also be true of symbols such as the Confederate flag or the swastika. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z Another high point is Dead Confederates, a comically macabre account of a plan to loot ornaments from the graves of Confederate soldiers. Burning Bright by Ron Rash – review 2012-08-04T23:05:30Z At first, the conspirators wanted to kidnap the president, take him to Richmond and ransom him to free Confederate prisoners of war. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z We're seeing African Americans be nominated and win Oscars more than any time in history, and rusty racist Confederate statues are falling down all over America. The danger of R. Kelly's tears 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The races were the brainchild of James Lawrence Kernan, a Confederate soldier who became an entertainment mogul after the Civil War. For one wild era, walking was the nation’s No. 1 spectator sport 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Whether or not Confederate will deal with the material as deftly as Winters, who owed an extreme debt to the writer Octavia Butler’s pioneering science-fiction novel Kindred, remains to be seen. Confederate: will a grassroots movement sink the controversial HBO series? 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB White teamed up to write Confederate, which they originally envisioned as a feature film but then decided to serialize on television instead. Game of Thrones episode leaked online after HBO suffers week of chaos 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Additionally, while some argue that taking down monuments is an affront to history, many of the Confederate monuments were erected decades after the Civil War. Stephen Colbert Helps John Oliver Take Down the Confederacy 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Board of Education decision saw a second, this time bitter burst of Confederate monument building. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, officials at the University of Texas at Austin removed a public statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis following complaints that the work of art glorified the South's racist past. Thomas Jefferson statue incites debate at Mizzou 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z He noted that it was the 2015 murder of nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., by a white supremacist that led to the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the statehouse. Historians Question Trump’s Comments on Confederate Monuments 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z There are visual references throughout to the black power salute of a fist in the air and to Confederate statues and monuments. When One Dancer Is a Ghost in the Room 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z To African Americans especially, the Confederate flag represents a darker form of rebellion, one that targets their civil rights. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Last week, the South Carolina legislature voted to remove the Confederate battle flag from its statehouse grounds, after days of emotional debate. Racism of Atticus Finch in ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Could Alter Harper Lee’s Legacy 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Cain was a Confederate veteran credited with relaunching Mardi Gras in Mobile after the Civil War. Mardi Gras in Mobile — where it started 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z “We historians, in the wake of the controversy over Confederate monuments, we have to use this as a teachable moment,” Chernow says. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z In the film, we see Tubman leading hundreds of black troops, leveling a rifle at her Confederate enemies as plantations burn in the background. Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z And if a lawless mob carrying Confederate flags, braying open sedition and storming the Capitol doesn’t sicken you, it will sicken your children — if the nation survives. Perspective | The Capitol mob images shouldn’t surprise you. Open insurrection was always where we were headed. 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Senior Tanisha Parson remembers hearing about the controversial use of Confederate monuments, which were incorporated as silhouettes into dozens of art pieces, before she even reached the doors of the Lyda B. Hunt Gallery. A university gallery showed art with Confederate imagery. Then students called to remove it. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z As a young Confederate soldier, Rooster had joined in the 1863 Lawrence massacre in Kansas. True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z Eventually the angry Confederate boy who dreams of joining up with a band of marauding raiders finds himself staring down Decatur Bronson’s gun barrel, praying for his life. Theater Review: ‘A Civil War Christmas,’ by Paula Vogel, Set at White House 2012-12-05T04:49:02Z It’s tempting to look at a Confederate flag at a Trump rally and extrapolate that to symbolizing everyone there. Outgrowing the cosmetic left: A liberal plea for fake liberalism to grow up 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z At the center of the latter selection is a large portrait of Charlie Wright, a runaway slave who provided crucial information to the Union Army about the Confederate push toward Gettysburg. Review | In the galleries: Turning the commonplace into uncommonly fine art 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z That evening, white supremacists and neo-Nazis held their torchlight parade on the University of Virginia campus, and the next day’s demonstrations over a Confederate statue turned deadly. The boast that a Trump administration can bottle and sell 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Hate couture: Wrapping yourself in the Confederate flag. Week 1134: The ‘Sty’le Invitational Red‘ux’ 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Around Fairview, a city of under 200, there is no consensus about what should be done with Confederate monuments and the history they represent. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z In April 1864, she was captured by Confederate forces and sent to a prison in Richmond, Virginia, where she stayed for four months until she was freed in a prisoner swap. Trailblazing surgeon Mary Walker still one of a kind 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z But I’d appreciate it if you could rethink that Confederate flag.” Social Q’s : Thy Neighbor’s Flag - Social Q’s 2013-01-24T19:59:27Z On Monument Avenue today, there are still flowering trees, grassy medians and regal brick homes, but the traffic circles that once held Confederate figures are filled instead with succulents. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z But rather than trust the audience’s ability to think through the thorny historical and ideological issues at the heart of the story, Mr. Redford and the screenwriter, James Solomon, descend, perhaps inadvertently, into Confederate apologetics. | 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z After the story’s publication, it was removed — along with another Confederate marker in downtown San Diego. Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z In a pouring rain, as a church bell — nearly melted down into Confederate weaponry during the Civil War — rang in the background, a crane sent the Jackson statue airborne. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z A Confederate statue is like Trump’s tie rack: Both will likely be moving soon. Style Invitational Week 1394: Two movies, one line 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z A Colorado lab has since restored the film about the mother of a dead Union solider requesting that Lincoln pardon a Confederate soldier whom she had initially turned in. 1913 Lincoln movie found in barn cleanup 2010-04-13T18:25:00Z His company removed Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, including the Lee statue there, and quietly whisked away other iconography outside Virginia before returning to Richmond to deconstruct the pedestals on which the statues once sat. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z But others argue that it is possible to defend the Confederate memorials as art without defending the subject matter. Trump Aside, Artists and Preservationists Debate the Rush to Topple Statues 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Confederate monuments are being taken down across the United States, sometimes with fanfare, sometimes in the dead of night, sometimes with agonizing bloodshed. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z In response to the police killing of George Floyd and the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, Confederate monuments and symbols are being removed and reassessed, not least the flag. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Wormley is hiding a secret: He is actually a rebel soldier eager to alert the Confederate forces of his whereabouts. Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, in Baltimore, four monumental sculptures with Confederate association were hoisted, by night, onto city trucks and driven away. We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z "Dave has always had excellent instincts. What better time that now to choose to look like a Confederate war general," Steve Martin said. David Letterman Receives Mark Twain Prize 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z A Confederate flag remains on the theater marquee. Pastor’s fight against KKK becomes movie that may aid battle 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Plantation slavery was conveniently glossed over in the haunted landscape of the former Confederate States of America. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z She was taking long masked walks alone and exploring New Orleans by foot, discovering the hidden Jewish names in so many graveyards, the horrific Confederate statues and the unreal beauty of City Park. My Unlikely Pandemic Dream Partner 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Kung is asked to deny Confederate ships any entrance into Chinese waters; he agrees. Exhibition Review: ?Discovering the Civil War? at National Archives 2010-04-29T21:21:00Z Tubman helped guide three Union steamboats around Confederate mines and then helped about 750 enslaved people escape with the federal troops. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Pepper jackets and “Confederate” beards, look anywhere but the published word for their inspiration. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z In addition to exposing the Walters’s Confederate leanings, the museum connects the family’s wealth, and thus their art collection, to slavery. In Baltimore, the Walters Art Museum confronts the Confederate history of its founders 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z “They think a star means a general, but in the Confederate Army, it meant a major.” In Warrenton, Va., the Mosby Museum illuminates the Gray Ghost He upheld a Black defendant’s right to exclude a White juror who had displayed the Confederate flag. A conservative judge helped stop Trump on Jan. 6. He wants to finish the job. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z He signals the primacy of the love story by starting, in the 1860s, with sex: a young Confederate soldier bidding goodbye to his girl. Review: A Pageant of Love and Antisemitism, in ‘Parade’ 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z In 2020, she spoke out against statues in Tennessee that depict Confederate generals and Ku Klux Klan members and in support of justice for George Floyd . . . and yet she is supposedly dating an unapologetic racist. Taylor Swift and the ways white women exploit allyship 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z It was used instead as a prison for Confederate soldiers, quickly becoming overcrowded and deadly. Touring Castle Williams on Governors Island 2012-08-02T19:28:27Z TV Land is yanking the 1980s show Dukes of Hazard amid controversy over the Confederate flag, which is prominently displayed on the roof of the Duke Boys’ car, named the General Lee. TV Land Pulls 'Dukes of Hazzard' Amid Confederate Flag Controversy 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The driving trail documents the Confederates’ last invasion of the North, led by Lt. Visit Md. Civil War site in a kayak 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But the fad for cycloramas soon faded, and in 1890, Georgia promoter Paul Atkinson, the brother of Confederate soldiers, bought the painting for $2,500. 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 Rebecca creates Confederate soldiers, while Ruth constructs the Union forces. There’s a museum for everything. Even Civil War battles — depicted by cats. 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement this spring spelled the end for many Confederate symbols. Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z He is still tormented by the kidnapping of his wife by Confederate soldiers fleeing the Gettysburg field of battle. Theater Review: ‘A Civil War Christmas,’ by Paula Vogel, Set at White House 2012-12-05T04:49:02Z While it's definitely true that Booth told him little and clearly manipulated him, I strongly suspect that Mudd was involved in what today we might call Confederate "espionage." West of Key West, an Under-the-Radar National Park 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Instead, the new series, called “Confederate,” has provoked a passionate outcry from potential viewers who are calling out HBO and the creators over how they will handle this volatile mixture of race, politics and history. ‘Confederate’ Poses Test Over Race for ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators and HBO 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Arriving smack dab in the middle of Black History Month — our shortest month, naturally — “Braggsville” lashes self-satisfied liberals in the academy and self-deluded Confederates in the attic. The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z She presses a swath of the Confederate Flag over the cut to stop the bleeding. These Are the Biggest Differences Between The "Paper Towns" Movie and Book 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Matthew Lopez's play is set in a ruined, looted mansion in Richmond in the days immediately following the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. Between states: Ideas in the Civil War-set play 'The Whipping Man' 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z The head of the city’s parks department said the art is a fitting departure from 20th-century statues commonly seen across the nation that honor Confederate soldiers. Sculpture of enslaved explorer mysteriously appears in Oregon park 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it. Across the country, liberals and conservatives are coming together at moderated dinners to understand each other better 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z We end our walking tour at the Appomattox statue in Old Town, the Confederate statue. This time, the focus on the Civil War is about women 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The following class, he arrived wearing a shirt with a Confederate flag. White pride in my classroom 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z But before it begins production, Confederate will be up against the considerable handicap of public opinion. Confederate: will a grassroots movement sink the controversial HBO series? 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z A recent report detailed a season of agricultural fairs marked by bannings, clamoring and is we is, or is we ain't selling Confederate merchandise decisions. Lonnae O’Neal: I drive past a Confederate flag nearly every day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Take his brilliant use of cross-cultural juxtaposition to illustrate why defenders of Confederate monuments are just plain wrong. A defense of Bill Maher (that still criticizes the heck out of him) 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z When thousands of white supremacists converged on Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend, angered by the city’s plans to remove Confederate monuments, they employed the terrorist tactics of the KKK. There have never been “many sides” to American racial terror 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z His series on the Richmond monuments scrambles the image of Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders, dissecting the smooth statuary into phantom horsemen with many patterns and textures. This Artist Got His Start as an I.C.U. Nurse 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Sometimes, there’s just “no way around it,” Mr. Keefer said, not long after going down under intense fire from the Confederate lines. The Decline of the Civil War Re-enactor 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z At each performance of “Caroline, or Change,” I look forward to this calming bit of preshow acclimation, even as a Confederate statue stands imposingly at center stage. A Season to Savor a Cherished Musical Again and Again (and Again) 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z “Black freedom, the fate of former Confederates, and the future of the nation were at stake for all Americans, whether they grieved or rejoiced when they heard the news,” she said. ‘Mourning Lincoln’ Wins Book Prize 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z That effort later ran into significant opposition from the Sons of Confederate Veterans and others, and died in Congress. President Obama Designates National Monuments to Civil Rights History 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Having gone through this, I would prefer it if no one would ever bring a Confederate flag to our shows again because this isn’t who we are.’ Tom Petty on Confederate flag: “People just need to think about how it looks to a black person. It’s just awful.” 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z I thought Friday’s removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol grounds would be anticlimactic. Lonnae O’Neal: How I felt when the Confederate flag finally came down 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Within the first few pages, there’s a statue of the Confederate colonel Robert E. Bigly and a resort called Farrago-Sur-Mer. Can Political Satire Outpace Reality? 3 Books Toss Their Hats in the Ring 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z An anthropomorphic Confederate flag in colored pencil on a gold leaf background by Bailey Scieszka weeps copious tears as it is stabbed with a blade and set on fire. At Park View gallery, a spellbinding trip into a world turned upside down 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Confederate,’ in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show.” “Game of Thrones” producers defend “Confederate” after backlash 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Finding answers is the kind of work that will be waiting even if every Confederate flag in every corner of the country suddenly disappeared. Anna Deavere Smith returns to Baltimore, with a mission 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z So what do we do with these images, as surely monuments to racism as any Confederate flag now? We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z It's the president's last note to McClelland before relieving the general of his command for not aggressively pursuing Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee after the Battle of Antietam a month earlier. Letter from Lincoln being sold by Philly dealer 2011-09-07T16:52:10Z It's a model that could be implemented by cities that are now debating what to do with the space left behind by the Confederate monuments. As Confederate monuments come down, what should replace them? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z He said even though everything is historically accurate, the actual men are fictional and by doing this, the piece does not reflect any individual, it reflects Mississippi Confederate soldiers as a whole. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z At a time much concerned with Confederate history and monuments, “Allen C. Guelzo’s fine biography is an important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The clash became known as “Battle that Saved Washington” because it delayed the Confederates long enough for the Union to send reinforcements to Washington. Visit Md. Civil War site in a kayak 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Photograph: David James/SMPSP/Dreamworks II Distribution/EPA The film opens towards the end of the war, with the slaveholding Confederate south staggering towards defeat. Lincoln: more jaw-jaw than war-war. And no vampires 2013-01-23T14:26:46Z It references one of the more dramatic moments of the Civil War, when three divisions of Confederate infantry attacked Union lines across a wide, open field at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Review | Mark Bradford turned a bloody Civil War battle into art that will haunt and entrance you 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z We had been there in 2005, for her memorial, driving through green Kentucky horse country, noting Confederate flags from the windows of the rental car. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The announcement comes shortly after that of HBO’s Confederate, which will imagine a contemporary world in which the south seceded from the union and slavery is still practiced. Black America: Amazon alt-history series to depict a post-reparations US 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The clandestine journey brings them through lawless terrain devastated by Sherman’s Army and returning Confederate soldiers, yet Varina remains a beacon of stoicism and civility amid the chaos. Fiction Chronicle: First Lady of the Confederacy 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Virginia is crisscrossed by roads named in honor of Confederate generals. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z The next day, the administration of the small private liberal arts college faced growing discontent among students and, mindful of other recent conflicts over Confederate statues, worried that the art might attract hate groups. A university gallery showed art with Confederate imagery. Then students called to remove it. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Exhibit designers created social networking pages like Facebook to show how Union Gen. George McClellan once was a protege of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, for example. National Archives puts Civil War vaults on display 2010-04-27T22:35:00Z A common refrain today among supporters of Confederate monuments is that they represent history and not racism. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Again and again, he says, progress toward integration and equal rights in the military was accompanied by Confederate memorialization. Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z But I don’t run around wearing Confederate T-shirts. A country song, assumptions — and a racial outcry 2013-04-12T04:28:55Z We live in a different time, though, in a world where inevitability is neither excuse nor consolation; even South Carolina seems likely to remove the Confederate flag from its statehouse grounds. Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird': It lingers, but not in the way he expected 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Another marker records “The Telegram Which Began the War Between the States” and yet another “The First Offices of the Confederate Government.” Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z It had a Confederate meaning, at first, especially among 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 She longs for the city’s Confederate monument, an obelisk, to come down swiftly. Controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down. Fixing the world that built them is harder. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z After the racist church massacre in Charleston, Confederate flags were belatedly lowered. The Cosby Show, The Dukes of Hazzard and the Ethics of Reruns 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The fight over the Confederate Flag in Lansing taught anyone paying attention that white defense of history, as obvious from its extreme selectivity, functions as a shield for white authority. My hometown Confederate war 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z It includes the Monocacy National Battlefield, where Confederate troops forced a Union retreat after a daylong battle with 2,000 casualties. Visit Md. Civil War site in a kayak 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Both the Confederate and rainbow flags are offensive to some, therefore, the two flags should be treated the same. Civilities: Why can you fly the rainbow flag but I can’t fly the Confederate flag? 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z In high school, Laird saw a Hank Williams Jr. shirt with a Confederate flag on it and thought, “that looks cool.” A country song, assumptions — and a racial outcry 2013-04-12T04:28:55Z Barber’s frustration with hypocritical liberals, a hallmark of neo-Confederate rhetoric, has been exacerbated by a number of school bans on Confederate flag apparel. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z The American Civil War film, Cold Mountain, was filmed in Romania with many Romanian actors playing Union and Confederate soldiers. ‘Beirut’ Trailer Was Supposed to Thrill. Instead It Offended. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Plenty of highly publicized racially-charged incidents occurred afterward surrounding the removal of Confederate statues, proving that no alternate timeline was needed to illustrate the ramifications of America’s failure to deal with slavery. “Deadwood” fans, rejoice: the movie is alive at HBO!…But so is “Confederate” 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z More straightforwardly successful was an 1898 coup d’état in Wilmington, N.C., when white businessmen and former Confederates conspired to dislodge a biracial government and gut Black economic power. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z In an article on the conservative website the Daily Caller published last month, reporter Blake Neff listed 13 items that Amazon was still selling after removing Confederate flags from its store. Sacramento rabbi wants Amazon to pull Holocaust-denial books 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z If every Confederate monument in America were replaced with a statue of Dolly, we could end the controversy about them right now. Dolly Parton, American icon: Why everything's coming up Dolly now 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z There are pockets of Confederate nostalgia in Texas, but the Civil War has never had the same psychological stranglehold on Texas that it seems to have in some states. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Erica Grieder on What America Can Learn From Texas 2013-05-01T14:00:56Z She notes how quickly Lee, still in his mid-50s when he assumed command of the Confederate forces, took on the graying, somewhat haggard look familiar from photographs. Television Review: How an Engineer Became a White-Haired General 2011-01-02T22:11:34Z No one is stopping you from flying a Confederate flag on your private property or longing for one. Why Can’t I Appreciate the Confederate Flag and Also Condemn Racism? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Confederate statues came down all over the country. Perspective | Was 2017 the end of something or just the beginning? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Radar is the only one who gets a Confederate flag shirt, though. These Are the Biggest Differences Between The "Paper Towns" Movie and Book 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The first episode, “Re-Righting History,” jumps into the battle over monuments and buildings honoring Confederate generals. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Conan Without Borders’ and ‘GI Jews’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Despite what Yankees like myself might think, Dewey Barber can be legitimately proud of Confederate soldiers: their courage, their commitment, their military prowess, the lives they gave for what were often noble reasons. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z As with the sketch where they ruin a Confederate civil war re-enactment by turning up in role as stereotypical slaves. Jordan Peele on Us: ‘This is a very different movie from Get Out' 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z But they were regarded as lucky during the Civil War, when the Confederate Army survived the harsh cold on nothing but black-eyed peas. 5 foods that are traditionally eaten for luck in the New Year 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Human enemies arise in the shape of a renegade Confederate soldier — whose finger Sam shoots off — and a man who claims that Pacheco stole his horse. Review | Best new audiobooks to listen to as you head out on the road this summer 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Sparked by the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, cities all across the American South are reckoning with their Confederate statues. As Confederate monument debate continues, Kehinde Wiley’s new statue challenges the heroic narrative 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z On their surface, the debates swirling around “Detroit” and “Confederate” have to do with white artists telling black stories. Perspective | ‘Detroit’ and the question of cultural gatekeeping 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The grandchildren refer affectionately to Barber as Poppa, and it might be their presence that inspires his final explanation of why he cares so much about the Confederate flag and Southern heritage. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z Horwitz reckoned with the legacy of the Civil War all his life, fearlessly, long before battles over Confederate monuments and the press’s fascination with the resurgence of white nationalism. Tony Horwitz, a Historian Who Reckoned Fearlessly with the Legacy of the Civil War 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z “We got plain prints, Christian prints, American prints,” says Frank, and for the first time I notice that a substantial number of items don’t feature the Confederate flag. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z That’s right, Oliver encouraged the man he now calls “the human equivalent of a clear plastic bag filled with cheeseburgers and Confederate flag belt buckles” to run for president. Why John Oliver Blames Himself for Donald Trump's Candidacy 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z The 21-year-old shooter, Dylann Roof, was avowedly motivated by white supremacist beliefs, and his website featured images of himself waving the Confederate flag. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z In the case of “Accidental Racist,” the flashpoint is a Confederate flag T-shirt. Less Than Accidental Racist: Why Paula Deen’s Comments Insult Her Fans Too 2013-06-20T17:10:41Z My family was tired of passing it around, though — an old, cracked oil painting of an apple-cheeked Confederate sporting a Borat mustache seated upright in a baroque gilded frame. To Campuses Without a Compass 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Confederate statues, which have long been a source of tension in American cities, have also come under renewed attack as Black Lives Matter protests have swept the country. The Statues Were Toppled. What Happens to Them Now? 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z During the Civil War, thousands of formerly enslaved men joined the fight against Confederate forces. 12 New Books Coming in February 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z In defending the flag, Jeff O’Cain, a former commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, talked to “NBC Nightly News” about the men who died protecting South Carolina in the Civil War. Lonnae O’Neal: What’s underneath the forgiveness and activism? 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z JC: Georgia did away with the Confederate battle flag 14 years ago. Jimmy Carter and Jacqueline Woodson on Race, Religion and Rights 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z To be fair to Jefferson Davis, being president of the Confederate States of America seemed like a prestigious position going in. Chief of staff, Oscars host, Popchips spokesperson: The allure of the doomed job 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Having once stood for one, unambiguous thing – the Confederate army during the American civil war – the flag has now accumulated a multitude of meanings, many far removed from the original Confederate cause. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Some are actual ghosts, such as the Confederate soldier who sometimes shows up on the South Carolina beach where the story mainly takes place. In ‘Grief Cottage,’ Gail Godwin explores the long shadow of loss 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z “Dead Confederates” is narrated by a highway worker who has been coaxed neck deep into trouble by a fellow member of his road crew. Books of The Times: Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen?s Empty Nest 2010-03-08T08:48:00Z I grew up blithely unthreatened by historical symbols of domination, like the Confederate flag emblazoned on the backs of pick-up trucks and in store windows. Shoot first, ask questions later: The destructive downside to America’s cult of DIY personal security 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z No one is saying that you can’t fly the Confederate flag, or any flag of your choosing — that’s your right to free expression. Civilities: Why can you fly the rainbow flag but I can’t fly the Confederate flag? 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The Confederate flag was known as a headquarters flag because it was flown specifically to mark where a general’s headquarters were located. News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z While fearing a big attack by the Confederate Army, Newton awaits word of help from the Union Army, led by General William Tecumseh Sherman, whose troops are nearby. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z His great-great grandfather was Robert Smalls, who commandeered a Confederate ship, turning it over to Union forces and winning freedom for himself, his family and his crew. Charleston Needs That African American Museum. And Now. 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z In Davis's eyes, there was no other choice, and he eventually headed to Montgomery, Alabama, where the heads of the recently seceded Southern states were planning to meet and form the Confederate States of America. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z For no-weight-gain inspiration, I reread aloud the first chapters of certain favorite novels: “Great Expectations,” “To the Lighthouse,” “Middlemarch,” “The Portrait of a Lady,” “The Bluest Eye,” “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.” How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Stuffed with bugs, frogs, snakes and silly costumes, it trundles along smoothly enough as Robert learns that his likeness has popped up in multiple paintings, once in a Confederate uniform. ‘The Visitor’ Review: Let the Wrong One In 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Did you get to keep your pot leaf/Confederate flag boogie board? Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z How do you respond to people who say your “Rumors of War” piece seems prescient in light of the movement to tear down Confederate monuments? Kehinde Wiley on Protests’ Results: ‘I’m Not Impressed Yet’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z I am intrigued by its history — from my house I can see Stone Mountain, which features the nation’s largest Confederate monument — but Theroux’s travelogue strikes me as rather clichéd. The 1,328-Page Novel That Captivated the Primatologist Frans de Waal 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Hasselbeck asked Jones what he would say to those who believe the Confederate flag is a symbol of hate, especially when it appears on license plates or is hung outside a state capitol. “Dukes of Hazzard” actor calls removal of Confederate flag “a hysteria of cultural cleansing” 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z I am a white man from the North: there may be no opinion on the Confederate flag less relevant than mine. What Did The Dukes of Hazzard Really Say About the South? 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z In August, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal sought to block the removal of four Confederate statues in New Orleans, following a vote from two city commissions in favor of removing them. Thomas Jefferson statue incites debate at Mizzou 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The phrase “states’ rights” is an oft-employed code word used in defense of racist policies; it was, in particular, a favorite term of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Donald Trump is not an LGBT-friendly candidate: His presidency would be a disaster for human rights 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z 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 an entry dated February 28, 1865, Whitman mentions meeting a Confederate soldier. Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z This summer, the City Council narrowly voted to move from the front of its courthouse a Confederate monument that was dedicated in 1911, during the high point of Confederate commemoration across the country. Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for ‘More History’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z It never ceased being connected to Confederate soldiers, but it became associated with the Confederate nation when it became the national flag in 1863. 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 “My birthday is April 26th, Confederate Memorial Day,” she said. Natasha Trethewey Is Named Poet Laureate 2012-06-07T02:03:39Z In a scene showing the capture of a Confederate flag, the flag was painted out. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The Union general George B. McClellan defended the “frequent reviews,” or parades, that he held in Washington rather than march his men toward the Confederate capital. The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Part of my Texas grandfather’s family had come there from Alabama and I’m sure that if I dug deep enough into the genealogy, I would find Confederate veterans and very possibly slaveholders. I don’t know much, but I know why black lives matter 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Chestnut was once named for Jefferson Davis; some white locals still refer to it by the Confederate leader's name. From this Selma house, Martin Luther King made civil rights history 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z When we were there in 2009, I saw markers everywhere for Confederate and Union regiments, but I missed the one for African-American soldiers. Q&A: Ta-Nehisi Coates On His Obsession With the Civil War 2012-06-01T18:18:51Z Moss hangs from the trees, the pace is slow and there are Confederate Army tributes in places like the Jefferson County Courthouse in Monticello. Finding My Florida 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z She married a wealthy doctor at a “Confederate wedding” with a Rebel honor guard, and remained an “eternal loyalist,” ending her long life writing nostalgic fiction about a faithful slave and his “saintly” master. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z He not only sang "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," but inhabited it, becoming the Confederate Virgil Caine, "hungry, just barely alive"; his brother killed by the Yankees; the South itself in ruins. Levon Helm, key member of The Band, dead at age 71 2012-04-20T02:31:04Z Men in cargo shorts are still defending Confederate monuments. The next HBO show from the “Game of Thrones” team will start a civil war 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z It makes sense then that “Confederates,” which opened on Sunday at the Pershing Square Signature Theater, feels like an elegant experiment, thoughtful and put-together but not quite realizing its full potential. Review: ‘Confederates’ Talks Race in Double Time 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Horwitz was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New Yorker whose books included “Confederates in the Attic” and “Spying on the South.” Historian Charles King wins Francis Parkman Prize 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z This is why removing existing examples of cultural taxidermy from the shared cultural landscape needs to be thought of as a priority on par with the ongoing removal of Confederate monuments tacitly celebrating slavery-era politics. Cultural taxidermy, not appropriation: the trophies in sports no one wants to talk about 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z In the book’s closing pages, a Confederate soldier observes, “I think that we were both right and both wrong.” The South’s Fight for White Supremacy 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Even the Ole Miss football coach, whose team is named “the Rebels” for the Confederate troops of yore, said the flag should bite the dust. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z “This play is not like all of my others,” Dominique Morisseau writes in an author’s note in the script for “Confederates.” Review: ‘Confederates’ Talks Race in Double Time 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z The Confederates, who had been entrenched behind an earthen berm that still stands today, fought off the first assault but withdrew afterward, opening a path to the city. In North Carolina, a new Civil War memorial honors Black Union soldiers 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z But there they were, the mother smiling as her young daughter held up a shirt printed with an adorable little cowgirl, dressed in a leather-fringed skirt and jacket, holding a small Confederate flag. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z Monument Avenue, a residential thoroughfare once dotted with statues of Confederate heroes, is close by. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z They relied not only on their weapons, but also on Nazi and Confederate imagery to try to intimidate counter-protestors. There have never been “many sides” to American racial terror 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z After a good chuckle, the interviewer followed up: “But what was the deal with the Confederate hat?” Morrie Turner Dies at 90; Broke Barriers in Comics 2014-01-29T01:15:34Z Their Confederate counterparts were even less competent; whatever brief successes they enjoyed owed more to European rulers’ desire to see America fail for strategic reasons than to any sympathy with the Southern cause. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Some of the marchers carried Confederate flags or wore them. My college's response to a Nazi march taught me about the "true America" 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z And the state was Mississippi, where the Confederate symbol still remained a part of the official flag. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z He not only sang "Dixie Down," he inhabited it, becoming the Confederate Virgil Caine, "hungry, just barely alive," his brother killed by the Yankees, the South itself in ruins. Levon Helm, key member of The Band, dies at 71 2012-04-19T20:01:17Z There you will find the graves of nine Confederate soldiers and one Union soldier who died on the day Lee surrendered to Grant. In France, Vestiges of the Great War’s Bloody End 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Because the memory of the Confederate defeat shaped Southern culture then and now. 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 One startling moment in the film involves a shot of a prominently displayed Confederate flag, which then recurs several times in a short span of time. The Unintentional Politics of Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Guiding the ship past Confederate forts and issuing checkpoint signals, Smalls steamed up the Cooper River, stopping at a wharf to pick up his wife, child and his crew’s families. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Perhaps the recent lowering of the Confederate flag on South Carolina’s statehouse grounds is a beginning — but there is still a long way to go. In Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ a less noble Atticus Finch 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z “Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.” Encounters With Ghosts on Georgia’s Golden Isles 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z When Ms. Wilson approached the local chapter of a Confederate heritage organization to tell them about the project, she said she received a cool reception. Where Civil War Soldiers Will March Again 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z I ask where he stands on the removal of Confederate statues. Hollywood’s Most Decent Fella on Harvey, Trump and History 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Three eight-foot Confederate soldiers tower over the men as they form and shape clay around the giant bodies. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z She used Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s post-war absolution as an example. Niece says ‘cruel and traitorous’ Trump belongs in prison 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z All white males between seventeen and fifty were required to serve three years in the Confederate Army. 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 Planter, a Confederate transfer and gunboat, and plotted his escape. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z A party supply chain is facing criticism after one of its stores in Virginia stocked its shelves with Confederate soldier children’s Halloween costumes this year, according to reports. Party City under fire for Confederate soldier kids' Halloween costumes at Virginia store 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The first Dixie Outfitters shirt, it was just a deer, jumping out of an oval, and in the background was a Confederate flag. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z He assumed there would be a few hundred representing all wars and conflicts; instead, his team found nearly 200 for the Civil War alone, mostly Confederate. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z TV Land announced that it’s pulling “Dukes of Hazzard” reruns because one of the main characters, the 1969 Dodge Charger called the General Lee, has a big old Confederate flag painted across the top. Lonnae O’Neal: I’m a black woman. I loved Luke Duke. It’s complicated. 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z She wrote of the Louisiana Native Guard, a black Civil War regiment assigned to guard white Confederate soldiers held on Ship Island off Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Natasha Trethewey named 19th US poet laureate 2012-06-07T02:59:08Z Even if they did exist in larger numbers, it would speak only to the complexity of human motivation, not the inclusivity of Confederate ideology. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z Yet while Ferris ascribes a specific meaning to the Confederate flag, he also acknowledges that the meaning of certain symbols and ideas depends on who deploys them. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z He adds that giving Confederate soldiers life on the field serves their story, which he says is usually absent in the classroom. Will Civil War reenactments die out? 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Eventually I bring up H. K. Edgerton, the mysterious man featured on Dixie Outfitters’s black Confederate t-shirt. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z Following the 2015 shooting of nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina removed the Confederate Flag from its state capitol building. The new “American Idiot”: Why Drive-By Truckers’ “American Band” is essential listening in the Trump era 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z To Earnest and his comrades in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Civil War was a righteous uprising by Southern patriots to throw off the yoke of federal tyranny. A Civil War expert objected to my profile of a neo-Confederate. I called him to discuss his critique. 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z “Confederate,” the forthcoming HBO show about an America where the rebelling Southern states managed to win the Civil War, was always a going to be a gamble. After Charlottesville, HBO doubles down on “Confederate” 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Pulling down Confederate statues is a powerful statement. Perspective | One of the most powerful works of video art will be available free online this weekend. Here’s why you must watch. 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The insurrectionists sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” as they carried the Confederate flag through the building. Perspective | The grand finale of the Trump show: America watches farce devolve to horror 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z But press Clark on that content, heightened by a dramatic promotional video packed with images of fire, nooses and Confederate flags, and he’ll brush you off. Gary Clark Jr. was supposed to save the blues. But the guitarist would rather channel Curtis Mayfield. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z A replica of a Confederate flag, seen by some as an enduring symbol of slavery and racism, was burned during the protest. ArtsBeat: At N.A.A.C.P. Event, Kid Rock Defends Use of Confederate Flag 2011-05-02T16:18:22Z However, four other Confederate statues on the campus grounds will remain in place, including one depicting Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Jefferson Davis statue deemed racist to be relocated at UT Austin 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Bronson has determined that should he ever again find Confederate prisoners in his power, he will seek vengeance by taking their lives. Theater Review: ‘A Civil War Christmas,’ by Paula Vogel, Set at White House 2012-12-05T04:49:02Z As the Civil War raged around Mount Vernon, Dr. Brandt said, Union and Confederate benefactresses “were able to transcend politics.” A Designer’s Sale of Memorabilia 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Later, when he took the picture to England, where there was sympathy for the Confederate cause, he changed the name back. American Eden, After the Fall 2013-01-10T22:01:26Z He noted he's a descendant of Confederate soldiers and says he did not intend offense by wearing it. Adkins explains Confederate flag earpiece 2012-11-30T02:20:09Z He discussed the genesis of Kenny Powers, the current election, and the weirdness of stoner and Confederate iconography. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z The Met was envisioned by a group of Americans in Paris, 16 months after the surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The Metropolitan Museum of Art spent years planning its 150th anniversary. Now the galleries are dark, the celebrations on hold. 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Should he end this bloody war, one of the most costly, bitter and divisive in modern history, by a compromising peace with the Confederate enemy? Lincoln – review 2013-01-27T00:06:12Z “We’re trying to poke holes in Lost Cause mythology, to show how it’s inaccurate,” said Kate Masur, a professor at Northwestern, referring to the depiction of the Confederate cause as a noble and just one. Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for ‘More History’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z In 1863, in an act of wanton destruction, Confederate Gen. Jubal Early destroyed the Caledonia Furnace, even burning down the workers’ huts. On the trail of Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania’s equal rights champion 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Many people tend to associate country music, rightly or wrongly, with Confederate flags and closed minds. Review: In ‘Southern Comfort,’ a Family Not Bound by Blood 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Those leaders were recently petitioned to move a Confederate statue from the courthouse square to a park or museum, almost anywhere but in front of the courthouse for all to see when they seek justice. Letters to the Editor 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Then Nikki Haley, the governor of my home state, did something I never imagined happening in my lifetime—she signed the order to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s state house grounds. How close we are to slavery: America’s horrible legacy still deeply runs through the nation’s veins 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z "I have worked hard to help remove poisonous Confederate propaganda from our publicly owned spaces," he said. Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue can finally be removed after 5 years of protests, court rules 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Adams, along with five other Confederate generals, was killed during the battle on Nov. 30, 1864, when Confederate and Union forces collided in Franklin. News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z I once loved a man who hung a huge Confederate flag on his living room wall. I slept with the enemy: Here’s what an unlikely romance taught me about racism, Donald Trump, and our cultural obsession with male rebellion 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Compton is a Confederate veteran who was turned into a bloodsucker around the Civil War era. 'True Blood' stars Paquin, Moyer tie the knot 2010-08-22T18:45:00Z Go back and watch that man waving the Confederate flag around the Capitol that day, and behind him you’ll see, still occupying an honored spot on the wall, a portrait of Calhoun. Harpo Marx, South Carolina’s Voting History and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z The battle, which blunted Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's bold invasion of the North, was fought from July 1-3, 1863, and pitted more than 165,000 troops battling in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania. Scott brothers capture Civil War in 'Gettysburg' 2011-05-28T23:01:05Z Bob Fragala, 53, who portrays the Confederate captain, admits that it’s much more fun to play the underdog. Will Civil War reenactments die out? 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z And now we are wrestling with how to claim it — publicly, in granite, iron and bronze — or reject it, by consigning Confederate statues to scrap. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Today, we talk about flags, both Confederate and gay pride. Roundup: Gay pride flag recognized, L.A. historic house in danger of destruction 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “This is surprising because I assumed that in Mississippi, every month is Confederate Heritage Month,” Wilmore responded, after a long swig of off-brand whiskey. “The South lost. Why are we still dealing with this bullsh*t?” Larry Wilmore staggered by Mississippi’s Confederate Heritage Month 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z One fall afternoon, in 1910, thousands of people gathered at the West Virginia Capitol in Charleston to celebrate a new bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Black voters in West Virginia are tired of being invisible 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z The white man’s denim jacket sports a Confederate flag. Forget Snoop Dogg’s Trump clown: This anti-Trump hip hop video is radical, thought-provoking and wildly popular 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Among the most unusual objects is a Confederate cipher key, used to decode secret messages. ‘The Civil War in 50 Objects’: emblems of a bloody conflict 2013-07-11T18:49:15Z The women always begin their tour — which includes stops at statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson — at the auction block. Two women lead a free tour of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments each month. A new website lets everyone listen. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Doing so from the perspective of demonstrably courageous men who seized freedom for themselves and are nevertheless denied the resources – such as guns – to fight Confederate soldiers, is a conscious choice and a smart one. A salute to "Dickinson" and its devotion to using notoriety to spotlight other unsung histories 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Not far away, a big statue on a huge round pedestal, at the tip of the battery facing Fort Sumter, honors the Confederate Defenders of Charleston. Charleston Needs That African American Museum. And Now. 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z A pirate-fringed jacket worn by Michael Jackson, inexplicably featuring a Confederate flag, hangs near a jacket once belonging to the singer Fergie, decorated with dainty painted skulls with pink ribbons on their heads. EMP Museum celebrates the ultimate rock 'n' roll garment 2012-11-10T22:05:40Z The 1900s and 1910s were banner years for such acts of reverence, coinciding with a spike in construction of monuments celebrating Confederate soldiers and leaders. When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z On April 24, New Orleans city employees began the process of removing four Confederate monuments. Why the case for the removal of Confederate memorials isn’t so clear-cut 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z And unlike many commemorative statues, its political affiliation — Union, Confederate — has shifted over time, depending on where the painting was shown and who was looking. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z There were still Confederate forces in the field, but that would surely be mop-up duty. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The basement taproom once served as a hospital for Confederate soldiers, and the bartender just might save your life with a Hendricks and Tonic adorned with a spear of cucumber. The Ultimate Antiquing Tour 2011-11-02T13:50:02.420Z In a grand hall in New Orleans that was once home to Confederate artifacts, she overlaid recordings of three choirs performing “A City Called Heaven,” a utopian Black spiritual. Jennie C. Jones, a Minimalist Who Calls Her Own Tune 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z After lunch, he shows me several, one of which is called America and includes a Confederate flag, a severed green baby's head and a Mexican stick figure. David Bailey: out of his skulls 2010-08-25T20:30:00Z On Twitter, Mr. Packer reiterated that the show was not in response to “Confederate.” Amazon’s ‘Black America’ Imagines a New Nation in the South 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z I ask if those people tend to carry Confederate flags. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z He declared that dubbing Confederate soldiers actions’ treason “is to add viciousness to stupidity.” 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 attended Floyd town council meetings, covered Confederate monument debates, did award-winning reporting on the water system problems and wrote news-you-can-use pieces, like the one helpfully headlined “Don’t feed the bears!” This journalist was her paper’s only full-time reporter — until they fired her. Her small town wonders: Now what? 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Later that month, I drove on rolling country roads past patches of fiery red wildflowers and a business flying a Confederate flag, until I rumbled along a dirt lane and arrived at her secluded home. When Trump vs. Clinton Becomes a Family Affair 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z "I know Ken was horrified to have a Confederate ancestor, and I go, 'Aw, man, it's OK,'" said Gates, whose 2013 historical series "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" recently won an Emmy. For Henry Louis Gates Jr., a lifelong interest in family history in 'Finding Your Roots' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, HBO canceled “Confederate,” a proposed series from the creators of “Game of Thrones” about what America might have looked like if the North hadn’t won the Civil War. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z 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 Enraged white Southerners were flying the Confederate battle flag and carrying signs that read “Keep Our Schools White.” A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Others have linked the story to the national debate over monuments to Confederate history: Protesters successfully lobbied for another statue of Sims to be removed from New York’s Central Park in 2018. 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 Q: Since the African American Museum opened in 2016 there seems to be more division in the country, more racism and unrest, including protests around Confederate statues and mass shootings motivated by racist beliefs. Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian’s first black leader, on the challenge of making it ‘a place that matters’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Mark Bradford, the renowned Los Angeles artist, says Confederate statues should not be removed unless they are replaced by educational plaques that explain why they were taken away. Trump Aside, Artists and Preservationists Debate the Rush to Topple Statues 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Like many Confederate monuments, the Charlottesville statue dates to a period after the First World War when racist Jim Crow laws were being amped up in America. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Coates, who was hired at The Atlantic in 2008, has written about a range of issues including politics, poverty, the Confederate battle flag, health care and his own name. Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Leaving The Atlantic 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z First, a disconsolate Scarlett O’Hara weaves her way through hundreds of injured Confederate soldiers lying prostrate on the streets of downtown Atlanta. Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Dinning, aided by his lawyer, Bennett Young — a former Confederate soldier and humanitarian — went on to sue members of the mob for the destruction of his home. Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z West Virginia, seceding from Confederate Virginia in 1863, is the only state created by the Civil War. Coal no longer fuels America. But the legacy — and the myth — remain. 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z While the city had removed other statues of Confederate leaders, Lee’s remained up: It fell under state jurisdiction, and while the governor, Ralph Northam, vowed to take it down, the matter was tangled in court. Adam Pendleton Is Rethinking the Museum 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z In 1960, following the lead of our legislature, the town also began to fly the Confederate flag on its official flagpole, also on the town square. 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 When HBO Max announced Tuesday that it was temporarily removing “Gone With the Wind” from its streaming service, it seemed as if another Confederate monument was coming down. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z “Every scrap of land that a Confederate apologist walks upon,” he says, “somebody who looks like me has bled and cried and worked and died on. They don’t get to define it.” S.A. Cosby, a Writer of Violent Noirs, Claims the Rural South as His Own 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z 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 The second game I knelt at, there were people in the parking lot with a Confederate flag. High School Students Explain Why They Protest Anthems and Pledges 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Our final night was in a cabin near Lyndhurst, Va., built in 1863 by a Confederate soldier who then died at Chancellorsville. A Crash Course in Airbnb 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “Confederate” had a few defenders, like Judd Apatow, who said on Twitter that criticizing a show before it even existed amounted to “censorship,” but then backed away from that word. 10 Cultural Battles That Ruled 2017 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z “Everything that we are dealing with today, is mirrored in what Jackie went through, whether it’s driving while black, stop and frisk, Confederate flags, or wholesale housing discrimination,” said Burns. Ken Burns zooms in on Jackie Robinson: baseball great and civil rights hero 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But their purpose became a little more clear, as we saw that Bill tried to escape North with his slaves before being stopped and reluctantly becoming Confederate Bill. 'True Blood' Recap: The Calm Before the Storm? 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Paisley, a West Virginia native, begins the song with an anecdote about a black man taking offense at his Confederate flag T-shirt. A country song, assumptions — and a racial outcry 2013-04-12T04:28:55Z This political strain emerged before Meacham fully begins his story, flowering in the Confederate States of America, the modern world’s first experiment in building a nation founded explicitly on racial supremacy. A Battle for the ‘Soul of America’? It’s as Old as America, One Historian Notes 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z As the narrator of Dead Confederates puts it: "Doing what we're doing is a sin for sure, but not taking care of the woman who birthed and raised you is a worse one." Burning Bright by Ron Rash – review 2012-08-04T23:05:30Z The Confederate States passed the first conscription law on the North American continent on 16 April 1862. 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 massacre was followed a national debate over the public display of the Confederate flag on government grounds. Jefferson Davis statue deemed racist to be relocated at UT Austin 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Trethewey was born on the hundredth anniversary of Confederate Memorial Day, which paid homage to the Lost Cause. ‘Memorial Drive’ Powerfully Recalls a Southern Childhood and a Mother’s Murder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Premiere of the 21st season of “South Park” features protests — and Confederate flags. TV Picks for Wednesday, Sept. 13: ‘South Park’ returns; Kimmel scores Sean Spicer appearance 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z There is a lot at stake here: taxpayers paid approximately $40 million in the last decade for the upkeep of Confederate monuments alone; Monument Lab posted a map showing their locations. Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Gillespie warned of the dangers of gangs, vowed to protect Confederate monuments and condemned national anthem protests by pro football players. Democrats’ wins in state and local races credited to Trump resistance 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Lewis had escaped from Confederate imprisonment, had his life saved by an enslaved woman who hid him, and then, remembering that assistance, gave shelter to an African-American fleeing Oklahoma’s race riots in the 1920s. Exhibition Review: ‘Homefront and Battlefield’ Looks at Civil War Quilts 2014-05-05T20:59:16Z At a Tea Party event, he turns up to give attendees a goodie bag of Ku Klux Klan hoods, Confederate flags and White Power placards that they’d “forgotten”. Comedian Eric Andre: 'We don't tell guests a thing ...' 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z It sparked roiling debates about Confederate symbols in the public sphere, gun control and the mentally ill. 2015: The year of writing racially 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Former Confederate soldiers, sometimes wearing their old uniforms, roamed the South as newly empowered sheriffs, harassing, beating and arresting black freedmen. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z I ask him about the Confederate flag attached to his truck. Pride and pain in Trump country: 'We all grew up poor, but we had a community' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z There is raging debate over the future of Confederate monuments, the treatment of women and the significance of whiteness. This is what happens when performance artist Karen Finley inhabits Trump and talks Weinstein 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Other apparel from the same, now-defunct Instagram account featured an altered version of a Confederate flag — which, in place of stars, featured tiny fish — the words “White Lives Matter” and a web address: “MarlinLivesMatter.com.” Cosmopolitan Changes Course on ‘Bachelor’ Contestant Cover 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Confederate infantry formed along the crest of a hill behind a squat stone wall curved to face another stone wall one hundred yards distant, where fast-firing Federals blazed away at them with Sharps’ carbines. My Civil War: Re-enacting in the days of 9/11 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z In his statements at the time, the president suggested that there were “very fine people” who marched alongside the white-supremacist protesters in defense of that city’ statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Pranksters sneak KKK hoods, Putin postcards into racks at Trump Tower gift shop 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z “Unfortunately,” Daniels said on the site, “the Confederate battle flag has been adopted by hate groups — and individuals like Dylann Roof,” who is charged with murder in the church attack. Country Music Acts Quietly Abandon Confederate Flag 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Plus, Lola Arellano-Fryer has an interesting piece that looks at how many of those Confederate memorials in the South actually hail from Northern foundries. Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z A Confederate monument in Charleston, S.C., was vandalized this week with the words "Black Lives Matter," according to the Post and Courier newspaper. Jefferson Memorial, Confederate statues enter national race debate 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z And this was after the Confederate States of America had already been declared. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z What few Americans outside the South don’t understand is the Confederate defeat was so devastating the impact reverberates to this day. And where the depredations were the greatest, the war is remembered even more strongly. 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 “If the Confederate flag is finally going to be consigned to museums as an ugly symbol of racism, what about the beloved film offering the most iconic glimpse of that flag in American culture?” “Gone with the Wind” must stay: Why banning the racist film solves nothing 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z He had the Union uniforms recolored gray, and the Confederate uniforms painted blue. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Confederate monuments weren’t something that citizens stumbled upon occasionally. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Meant as a retort to Confederate monuments, it was created by Kehinde Wiley, best known for his vibrant portrait of President Barack Obama. They Keep Times Square in Order, and a Statue Front and Center 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Roughly 5,000 Civil War soldiers are buried in the cemetery, 75 of them Confederates, so the show features a zinc mold of an infantryman used for the cemetery’s notable Civil War monument. A Museum Plot for Green-Wood Cemetery 2013-05-14T21:34:33Z I had NO idea that Confederate Memorial Day and Jefferson Davis’ birthday were state holidays. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z In all, around 20 Confederate troops died, compared to just one Union soldier. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z The title was a reference to a black regiment assigned to guard white Confederate soldiers who were being held on Ship Island off Mississippi's Gulf Coast. New US poet laureate announced 2012-06-07T15:51:40Z General Lee models featuring the Confederate flag are still available on eBay and Amazon. 'Dukes of Hazzard' Toy Car Axed Amid Confederate Flag Controversy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The only Confederate official ever convicted of war crimes ran a prison here. Trans, black and loved: what happened when I returned to the deep south after transitioning 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z 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 Gettysburg is where the U.S. military was able to stop an invasion of the North by Confederate troops under Gen. Robert E. Lee, a major turning point of the American Civil War. 'Lincoln' director Spielberg speaks in Gettysburg 2012-11-19T10:16:03Z And that enormous Confederate flag wrapped around the watchtower? The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z RICHMOND, Va. — Within the first five minutes of the History channel documentary "Gettysburg," a Union soldier splits open the skull of a Confederate with his rifle stock. Scott brothers capture Civil War in 'Gettysburg' 2011-05-28T23:01:05Z Dixie Outfitters is a part of this minority, and its company website includes a history section with over eighty links to information about black Confederates. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z In the wake of the South Carolina shooting, we’ve seen national convulsions, reconsiderations, political calculations and the yanking down of all things Confederate. Lonnae O’Neal: I’m a black woman. I loved Luke Duke. It’s complicated. 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z White women built the monuments to Confederate generals; white women harassed black children as they tried to integrate schools. Perspective | The point we’re missing about ‘BBQ Becky’ and her sisters 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The grounds — where a campaigning Ronald Reagan once came to declare his belief in “states’ rights” — were festooned with state flags and Confederate banners. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z I was not old enough to see that the omission and the Confederate flag on General Lee were kissin’ cousins. Lonnae O’Neal: I’m a black woman. I loved Luke Duke. It’s complicated. 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z He protested when a South Carolina county refused to observe the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and he helped lobby to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse dome. Pastor’s fight against KKK becomes movie that may aid battle 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z This powerful moment isn’t spoiled by its resemblance to a similar overhead shot of the streets of Atlanta packed with wounded Confederate soldiers in “Gone With the Wind.” Review: ‘Testament of Youth’ Recalls the Great War With Little Nostalgia 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z He envisions the park — where a Confederate monument resided until 2017 — as a meeting place for social justice events. Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now Murray’s moment has finally come. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z “I just think it reflects poorly on Albany, and its awareness of its own history,” said Mr. Perlee, adding that — unlike Confederate figures — Schuyler was “someone who sacrificed everything he had to create this country.” Philip Schuyler Is Knocked Off His Pedestal in Albany 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z "I believe the first time the Confederate flag was used in a racist way was the exact second they finished sewing the very first one. It was around that time," he quipped. John Oliver takes aim at Confederate flag after Charleston shooting 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Interestingly, notes Elder, a historian at Converse University in South Carolina, memorializing the Confederate dead was controversial after the war, but not for the reasons it is being scrutinized today. How We Remember the Civil War 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z In many ways, it reminds me of the recent swell of Confederate monument removals. What's in a name? Shedding racist images and branding is just the start of breaking the Jemima Code 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Still, many remain unconvinced that Confederate is in good hands with Benioff and Weiss, or that it’s worth the investment from HBO, which itself has been chastised as insufficiently diverse for years. Confederate: will a grassroots movement sink the controversial HBO series? 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z To protest the Confederate battle emblem, she burned the Georgia state flag on the steps of the Capitol. Stacey Abrams Has a Message for You: Get Involved 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z A large Confederate flag flying over the soldiers’ cemetery confirms the sense: You really are in the heart of antebellum Dixie. Perfect solution to the mother-son travel conundrum: A dude ranch in the heart of Dixie 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z And sure, lots of people drive around with Confederate frames around their license plates and don’t commit hate crimes. After Charleston, Walmart dumps the Confederate flag: Can they stop selling guns next? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “She is deep in Confederate country trying to do this work,” Mr. Raiford said when he went to visit her farm this spring. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Reconstruction — a surreal and glorious period when Confederate veterans were barred from voting and freed slaves exercised real power in the South — was abandoned in a petty political deal over a presidential ticket. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Alexandria is presented, apparently with some basis in fact, as a Casablanca-like free zone, a Southern city occupied by the North, where Union and Confederate, slave and free, can uneasily mingle. Review: ‘Mercy Street,’ a Civil War Hospital Drama on PBS 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In the sculpture, three Confederate soldiers proudly carry their flag into the battle. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z One hundred miles to the northwest of Charleston flies the Confederate Flag: 30 feet in the air and directly in front of the Statehouse. Charleston and the Southern Gothic: Steeped in a heritage of hate, South Carolina must finally reckon with its past 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z K. Todd Freeman is fiercely proud as Decatur Bronson, an angry Union sergeant whose wife Rose was stolen two years earlier by retreating Confederates. Review: 'A Civil War Christmas' is sweeping tale 2012-12-05T03:46:05Z My alma mater’s team name is the “Rebels,” and their logo featured a Yosemite Sam lookalike in Confederate uniform carrying the secessionist flag. White flight from reality: Inside the racist panic that fueled Donald Trump’s victory 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z It is what remains of Illinois’s first penitentiary, opened in 1833 and used to hold Confederate soldiers captured during the war. Strolling Old Halls and Streets With Ghosts of Civil War 2010-05-13T21:56:00Z Similar Confederate soldier costumers are sold by third-party vendors on Amazon. Party City under fire for Confederate soldier kids' Halloween costumes at Virginia store 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z He was an unrepentant racist who alternately dismissed or fetishized blacks, bragged about his white-supremacist uncle and toadied up to Jefferson Davis and other Confederate stalwarts, drawing parallels between Southern secessionism and Irish republicanism. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The most recent issue features a dog shredding the Confederate flag in his teeth. Lonnae O’Neal: I drive past a Confederate flag nearly every day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Fusion left no doubt where it stood on the latter issue; one of its recent articles was a collection of Photoshopped images of gay pride flags grafted onto news photos of Confederate flags. Digital news for the young: LGBT, weed and the latest from ‘Game of Thrones’ 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z “The Confederate flag was the wallpaper of the South when I was a kid growing up in Gainesville, Florida,” writes Tom Petty in a new essay on Rolling Stone’s web site. Tom Petty on Confederate flag: “People just need to think about how it looks to a black person. It’s just awful.” 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z He is representing the anonymous Confederate soldiers, who lost their lives “struggling in the ultimate sacrificial way for a cause.” Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Another painting — “Prisoners From the Front,” by Winslow Homer — is an image traditionally interpreted as a confrontation between a Union officer and Confederate soldiers. Can Art Help Save the Planet? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z So-called flaggers gather here most weekends, at the corner of Grove Avenue and the newly rechristened Arthur Ashe Boulevard, to wave the Confederate standard. Kehinde Wiley’s Anti-Confederate Memorial 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z 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 James Earl Jones recorded a new introduction to the painting, which was once again seen not as a Confederate monument but as a tribute to the right side of history. A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Those who seek to malign the show because the famous car it featured had a Confederate flag painted on the roof are missing the point, he says. 'Dukes of Hazzard' Star Rips TV Land for Dropping Show 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The surviving Confederates complied, and with the help of the Waring's crew, Tillman guided the ship back north, arriving in New York Harbor five days later. Black seaman's 1861 heroics recalled in new film 2011-07-07T15:30:30Z A Confederate statue stood outside the county courthouse. S.A. Cosby, a Writer of Violent Noirs, Claims the Rural South as His Own 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Many YPO members were racist, and they flaunted controversial symbols associated with southern pride, such as the Confederate flag. 1969 vs. 2017: When Black Panthers aligned with Confederate-flag-wielding, working-class whites 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z In an email to CNN, Reign added, “We would like HBO to cancel #Confederate and instead uplift more marginalized voices with a different series.” HBO Responds to Twitter Protest Over 'Confederate' 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z The Confederate prisoners were later memorialized on the island, but not the black Union soldiers. Natasha Trethewey named 19th US poet laureate 2012-06-07T02:59:08Z He counted 59 Confederate markers glorifying the slave-owning south, while there was nothing to memorialise the suffering that the slave trade induced. Just Mercy: new film that captures the start of a brilliant civil rights career 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Other documents show how Lincoln reacted, how the Confederate States were organized and how both sides grappled for international support. National Archives puts Civil War vaults on display 2010-04-27T22:35:00Z Beyond the brisk storytelling and wordsmithery, however, lies bittersweet insight into rural Black America and the challenges of clawing one's way out of the rigged system held over from a former Confederate state. New page-turners heat up our summer reading: "Blacktop Wasteland," "The Only Good Indians" and more 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Some critics of Confederate monuments have called for them to be moved to museums, rather than destroyed, or even left in place and reinterpreted, to explain the context in which they were created. Historians Question Trump’s Comments on Confederate Monuments 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z In August in 2017, white nationalists gathered in Charlottesville to protest the city's decision to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. A Virginia school named after a Confederate general will be renamed Barack Obama Elementary School 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Onstage, Wiley discussed the first time he saw the Confederate monuments in Richmond. Kehinde Wiley’s Anti-Confederate Memorial 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The Confederate battle emblem still occupies a corner of the state’s banner, and the face of the Choctaw Indian Theresa Whitecloud is at the top of the Senate rotunda. 36 Hours in Jackson, Miss. 2013-05-30T17:27:31Z Not a single scene of “Confederate” had been shot, but maybe we were watching it already? 10 Cultural Battles That Ruled 2017 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Time spent with my family and in my hometown with its Confederate monument. ‘Too Beautiful to Be in Ruins’ 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Jimmy Kimmel joked that the grand jury “decided to push the hearing to tomorrow to give Trump supporters time to iron their Confederate flags.” Late Night Awaits Donald Trump’s Perp Walk 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z I was met with dozens of pictures: grinning in Confederate flag T-shirts, grinning in “Straight Pride” T-shirts, grinning in mid-interview stills excerpted from the evening news. White pride in my classroom 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z Custer focused on destroying farms and homes as he sought to disrupt Confederate supply lines, while Mosby used guerrilla tactics to mount cavalry attacks on isolated units of the much larger Union army. Marc Forster plans US civil war epic based on Kubrick's The Downslope 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Many Americans, in the South and the North, insist that Confederate monuments are historical artifacts that simply honor the region’s history and its loyal defenders. Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z 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 Cities are littered with Confederate monuments, which this Yankee first took for the shining bones of a long-dead ideology. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z Yesterday, two young white men drove a blue pickup onto the serene oasis of Wellesley campus, while prominently flying a Trump flag from the truck bed along with Confederate regalia. This can’t become our new normal: Hate acts reported across the country in wake of Trump’s victory 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z She thought the silhouette represented a duality of opinions about statues of Confederate leaders and soldiers. A university gallery showed art with Confederate imagery. Then students called to remove it. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z They derive from the stars and bars of the Confederate flag. Hank Willis Thomas opens a 'Black Righteous Space' at the California African American Museum 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Faced with the horrific murders in South Carolina and the ensuing debate over the appropriateness of the Confederate flag, it’s even clearer than usual that history is not a dusty book on a shelf. Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z I prowled the archives of the town library, with its stacks of war journals of Confederate and Union soldiers, and the segregated cemeteries and antebellum homes. An Intimate View of America, From Above 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z She was introduced by Robert Mead, a pastor and descendant of the Confederate general Lee, who took a moment to decry racism, which he called "America's original sin." A Roundup of Every Political Moment at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The lament of a Confederate soldier standing in the ruins of the starving American South, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” is made to sing around the campfire, high-lonesome harmonies and all. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z I’m a white Southern man who, despite my harsh objections to what I feel it represents, is willing to admit that I have a conflicted relationship with the Confederate flag.” Lonnae O’Neal: I drive past a Confederate flag nearly every day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Most recent role: A Confederate private in “Freedom’s Song” at Ford’s Theatre. When art doesn’t pay the bills, an actor needs a good supporting role 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z March 20: Several groups, including the Sons of Confederate Veterans, file a lawsuit against the city council, noting that its decision to remove the Lee statue violates state law. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z On the subject of sex offenders, he says he tried to use the story of Jimmy Savile, wholly unknown in the US, as a way to defamiliarise the debate around the removal of Confederate statues. John Oliver: ‘I’m used to audiences not liking me’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z The show invited immediate comparisons to “Confederate,” a coming HBO drama that also imagines a modern world in which the American South seceded and slavery remains legal. Amazon’s ‘Black America’ Imagines a New Nation in the South 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z “But if we get rid of the Confederate flag, how am I going to know who the dangerous White people are?” is the opening line of his stand-up special “Father Figure.” How Roy Wood Jr. crushed the toughest room in comedy 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Taproot Theatre stages the Seattle premiere of Matthew Lopez’s play about a Jewish Confederate soldier who returns home to share an unusual Passover with former slaves. A&E highlights: beer, bunnies and Mudhoney 2013-03-20T19:58:38Z Born and raised in Perry, Fla., a tiny city on the Big Bend of the panhandle named for a Confederate general, Cain views her youth as both picturesque and tortured. The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Standing in the painting’s new home, Jones, a white man in his mid-fifties who wears metal-framed glasses and a bushy gray beard, reflected on the still-roiling debates concerning Confederate monuments in the South and elsewhere. A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z He advertised “The Battle of Atlanta” as a Confederate victory. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z As an outspoken abolitionist, she had earned the enmity of her Confederate neighbors. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z One Confederate officer described his men as “amused and disgusted at the sight” of a woman in the uniform of an Army surgeon. Trailblazing surgeon Mary Walker still one of a kind 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Savannah surrendered to the Union in December 1864 and the Confederate army itself surrendered the following April, forcing the South to yield to the abolition of slavery. Ben Affleck's slave-owning family tree: records sketch a conflicted past 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The Confederate president as “a product of his time and circumstances.” 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z That sense of disappointment, even betrayal, has also pervaded the reaction to “Confederate,” HBO’s planned revisionist-history project positing an America in which the South won the Civil War and slavery still exists. Perspective | ‘Detroit’ and the question of cultural gatekeeping 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Confederate officers circulate among the belles and the enslaved workers; later there will be some boasting about impending victory over the treacherous “blue-bellied” enemy. ‘Antebellum’ Review: Look Away, Dixie Land 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Over time it has become the most prominent Confederate symbol, but it evolved into something beyond that – something Southern, and not just Confederate Southern, and not just white Southern, though pretty much white Southern. 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 In a move similar to Barber’s defense of the Confederate flag, the Hindu Forum of Britain likened banning the swastika to banning the cross because it had been used by the KKK. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z As for those portraying Confederate soldiers and generals, they say they choose to focus on facts only and steer clear of interpretation. Will Civil War reenactments die out? 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Swastikas may be banned in Berlin, but Confederate flags still fly. Germany’s strange nostalgia for the antebellum American South 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z But I don't run around wearing Confederate T-shirts. A country song, assumptions _ and a racial outcry 2013-04-11T20:44:08Z Apparently, some of those Confederates never checked out of the hotel. ‘We respect the ghosts’: A spirited cider-tasting guide to Adams County, Pa. 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Cohen would die wearing Confederate gray at the second Battle of Bull Run. A New Showcase for the Story of Jews in the South 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z One installation in the show included a bathroom sink with air fresheners — shaped like the silhouettes of statues of Confederate leaders — hanging from it. A university gallery showed art with Confederate imagery. Then students called to remove it. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z When the Confederates won the day, the white Union soldiers who were wounded were taken to a Confederate field hospital, but not the black troops. Television: Old-Time Stuff Is Not Forgotten 2011-05-27T18:40:43Z Built to protect the San Francisco Bay from Confederate and foreign attack during the Civil War, Fort Point is where Stewart saved Novak in "Vertigo," right at the base. Rock, bridge, bay: San Francisco's movie landmarks 2012-10-01T20:08:16Z Waring, born in 1880, was a Charleston patrician whose ancestors were slaveholders and whose father was a Confederate soldier. The Black Sergeant and the White Judge Who Changed Civil Rights History 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Jones talks emotionally about the historical imperative of building a slavery museum in a city replete with Confederate monuments. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The film is about a mistrustful group of motley characters — including two competing bounty hunters, a renegade Confederate soldier and a female prisoner — stranded by a blizzard in a saloon in the middle of nowhere. Quentin Tarantino confirms he's making 'The Hateful Eight' 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z A large, billowing Confederate flag in a yard on a busy thoroughfare. Lonnae O’Neal: I drive past a Confederate flag nearly every day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z As Adam and I peered down the slope, Roan told us in a low voice about the 20th Maine’s famed bayonet charge against a unit of equally desperate Alabama Confederates. An aunt hits the road with her niece and nephew 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The statement reads: “‘Confederate’ chronicles the events leading to the Third American Civil War. The next HBO show from the “Game of Thrones” team will start a civil war 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z After a tour of the factory floor we sit down in Barber’s office, which is decorated with a combination of Confederate memorabilia and family photos. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z I mean, his second inaugural address, while the Confederates are in town trying to kill him, to talk about bringing the country back together just takes an amazing kind of understanding, and expansive worldview. Journalist John Dickerson: ‘The major problem is that we look to the president for too much’ 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Virginia was a Confederate stronghold during the Civil War, but an area in the northern part of the state became a place for the Union Army to rest and refuel. Big history in little Clifton, Va. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z History also has scheduled a documentary on Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, the best-known Confederate and Union generals. Hollywood takes on the Civil War 2011-05-04T20:19:19Z The picture concludes a year later with a non-triumphalist coda that follows five days after Confederate general Robert E Lee's surrender. Lincoln – review 2013-01-27T00:06:12Z About a mile from me, a Confederate flag flies in the side yard of a house. Social Q’s : Thy Neighbor’s Flag - Social Q’s 2013-01-24T19:59:27Z It depicts a bare lightbulb on a garish red ceiling, with white cables forming an X across it, like a subliminal Confederate flag. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z “There was this interpretation that these successful, young African-American artists had to be gang members,” Mr. Findling said, recalling that he walked by Confederate monuments on his way into court. Atlanta’s #BillionDollarLawyer Is Looking Out for Your Favorite Rappers 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z People go about their daily routines while comically, sadly dressed up as Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Joe McKinney, who has contacted Confederate Railroad about performing at his family’s banquet facility in DeSoto because of the group’s popularity, said the band has never used the flag to fan racial strife. Illinois cancels band from fair lineup over Confederate flag 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z This is a common sentiment in white Mississippi — that the Confederate battle flag is a historic banner that embodies the noble service and sacrifice of men who fought for “states’ rights.” In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z This region was notorious for its Confederate leanings. The last trail of a Lincoln conspirator 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z A retired administrator with the Mississippi Department of Health, he describes himself as a “Civil War historian” and thus has always flown a Confederate flag at the fair. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps, for HBO, it is, if only because even a version of Confederate that confirms our worst suspicions couldn’t sink TV’s most formidable cash cow. Confederate: will a grassroots movement sink the controversial HBO series? 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Many of these monuments are protected by state laws in the former Confederate states. Rediscovering the Confederate Flag of Truce 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z After the school board voted earlier this year to change the elementary school's name, which honored the Confederate general, parents, staff, students and other community members submitted ideas for the renaming. A Virginia school named after a Confederate general will be renamed Barack Obama Elementary School 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Together we built a story, “Point of Honor,” which in its simplest form is about the journey of a Confederate family in Virginia through the turmoil of the Civil War. So ?Lost? Is Over: Now What?s to Be Found? 2011-01-28T14:32:47Z All around, I could see the Confederate flag was being used in a warped way, a convoluted way. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z It’s just a plain granite block, not far from the Confederate memorial but distinctly separate from it, among a row of old headstones. In Warrenton, Va., the Mosby Museum illuminates the Gray Ghost Last week, the University of Texas began moving a statue of the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, away from the center of the Austin campus. Lonnae O’Neal: I drive past a Confederate flag nearly every day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z During visits there, he says, he found a “hotbed of antebellum nostalgia ... and Confederate sympathies.” To photograph America’s diversity, he visited 64 locales all named Columbia 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z HBO might be under siege by hackers leaking content and Twitter activists protesting Confederate, but there’s one area that’s still an unmitigated success for the network: Game of Thrones ratings. 'Game of Thrones' Ratings Just Hit a Major Milestone 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Lanier was a Confederate veteran; the marker calls him “Georgia’s greatest poet.” A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z In 1915 Grant’s descendants paid off the bet with Confederate dollars. Semper Fib: All-bogus military trivia from Style Invitational Week 1132 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Despite the shortcomings, the Confederate soldiers survived on the black-eyed peas amid the frigid winter, making the beans a lucky food in the American South. Here’s how black-eyed peas became synonymous with New Year’s cooking 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The hero of “Dawson’s Fall” is Robinson’s great-grandfather Frank, an Englishman turned Confederate captain turned liberal newspaperman, one of the few white voices in Reconstruction South Carolina trying to tip the scales toward humanity. Her Great-Grandfather Fought for the South but Went On to Preach Equality 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The story, which Kubrick developed with Civil War historian Shelby Foote, focuses on a series of bitter battles in the Shenandoah Valley between Union Gen. George Armstrong Custer and Confederate Col. Stanley Kubrick's historical drama 'The Downslope' to be film trilogy 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Still, some performers have already suggested that they want no part of a series like “Confederate.” ‘Confederate’ Poses Test Over Race for ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators and HBO 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z I would never fly a Confederate flag for the reasons you suggest. Social Q’s : Thy Neighbor’s Flag - Social Q’s 2013-01-24T19:59:27Z A few blocks away is Monument Avenue, a mall of Lost Cause iconography, where five giant statues of Confederate leaders loom. Kehinde Wiley’s Anti-Confederate Memorial 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “West Side Story” might not be a Confederate monument, but it is a monument to the authority of white Americans to dominate the conversation about who Puerto Ricans are. The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Trevor Noah expressed his amazement on “The Daily Show” on Wednesday that something called Confederate Memorial Day still exists, even if it’s just in Alabama and Mississippi. Trevor Noah Has a Hard Time With Confederate Memorial Day 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z But the Confederate flag bothers me as a symbol of slavery and segregation, and I suspect that people like me are not welcome there. Social Q’s : Thy Neighbor’s Flag - Social Q’s 2013-01-24T19:59:27Z Why did the Confederate battle flag become so enduring a symbol? Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Polymathic Cultural Historian, Dies at 81 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Stuart is one of several schools in Fairfax County that are named for Confederate leaders; there is also a petition to change the name of Robert E. Lee High School. Julianne Moore and Film Producer Start Petition to Remove Confederate General From School Name 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Gettysburg is the site of the pivotal battle of the Civil War, where Northern troops were able to repel the Confederate army under Gen. Robert E. Lee. Spielberg to speak at 'Gettysburg Address' event 2012-10-02T17:51:09Z How the events in Charlottesville, and Mr. Trump’s comments, will affect the continuing debate over Confederate monuments remains to be seen. Historians Question Trump’s Comments on Confederate Monuments 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z In the days following George Floyd’s murder, protesters ringed Richmond’s Robert E. Lee memorial with graffiti, and soon after, they toppled a nearby statue of Jefferson Davis, dragging the Confederate president in the streets. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The reported paranormal activity has been said to occur on the historic battleground and neighboring St. Paul Episcopal Church, which served as a hospital for Confederate soldiers. 'Haunted forests' in North America that you can visit in time for Halloween 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z On the day after the rally, footage circulated of protesters in Durham, N.C., pulling a bronze figure of a Confederate soldier from its pedestal. We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z “This is not a Confederate monuments project; it is a monuments project,” says Alexander. Perspective | With $250 million initiative, Mellon Foundation wades into monuments controversy, hoping for positive change 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s the unfinished business of a nation, playing out today in the calls for the removal of statues of Confederate soldiers and in the resurgence of the Klan. Faulkner and Other Ghosts Sing Through Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The three color guards represent the Mississippi Confederates, Mississippi and, of course, the Sessumses. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z A lot of those men, the outlaws, the Jesse James types, they were the sons of Confederate soldiers, but they didn't have a fight. Meet Chanelle Benz, whose debut book is 'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z She routinely plucks Confederate flags from Selma’s Old Live Oak Cemetery, which drips with Spanish moss. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Soon after his strip began appearing widely in newspapers, Mr. Turner received an angry letter from a reader about Nipper and his Confederate hat. Morrie Turner Dies at 90; Broke Barriers in Comics 2014-01-29T01:15:34Z A wrecked jalopy sports a vanity plate of a Confederate flag. What You Didn’t Know About Barkley L. Hendricks 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Morris also spoke about the Confederate flag, saying that as a native Texan, she also didn’t fully understand the history and context of the flag outside of just “Southern pride” until she was a teenager. Luke Combs apologizes for Confederate flag imagery 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Back in high school, Laird saw a Hank Williams Jr. shirt with a Confederate flag on it and thought, "that looks cool." A country song, assumptions _ and a racial outcry 2013-04-11T20:44:08Z Gwynne, author of the riveting Quanah Parker biography “Empire of the Summer Moon,” takes on Confederate Civil War general Stonewall Jackson, a master strategist and relentless taskmaster who believed his cause was divinely inspired. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z 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 There was also this great record called the Tennessee Veterans Questionnaires which consists of interviews conducted about the time of World War 1 with both Confederate and Union soldiers. 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 Northerners whooped it up when they heard that Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated as the Civil War drew to a close 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Workers in Kentucky made a surprising discovery while removing a statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis from the state capitol on Saturday — a bottle of bourbon and an 84-year-old newspaper. Removal of Jefferson Davis statue in Kentucky reveals surprise bourbon discovery 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z “When we moved here, they still had Confederate flag towels in the beach shops; they’ve come down. It’s moving into the 21st century for sure, but they’re trying to keep it beachy and hippie.” Savoring the old-school charm of Carolina Beach, one of North Carolina’s oldest beach towns 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z One young man expresses his regard for the Confederate flag: “The rebel flag to me, a lot of young white boys, means just that: Reb.” Wade Into the Deep Bollywood Pool With Amazon’s Heera 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Early in the novel, in the aftermath of the Confederate surrender, Simon and his makeshift band are forced to play at a military dinner. Review | Paulette Jiles returns to the Civil War era with the romantic western ‘Simon and the Fiddler’ 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it. Former senator Carol Moseley Braun is back on the campaign trail, stumping for Joe Biden 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Grant’s Union forces suffered about 55,000 losses; Lee’s Confederate Army about 33,600, though it represented a higher percentage of its fighting force. National Portrait Gallery exhibit shows Grant and Lee at the end of the Civil War In referring to his expansive studio, he said, "she couldn't imagine me owning land that was once a Confederate army base, where Confederate soldiers plotted and planned on how to keep Blacks enslaved." The 2020 Emmys give us stars, just like us! At home, waiting for something good to happen 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z This time, it’s people with Confederate flag tattoos and shotguns in the back of their pickup trucks. Why we love to hate Coldplay: Admit it — the thing you hate most about this band is how much you really like them 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z It will be be erected near the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, blocks away from the Confederate monument that inspired its creation. As Confederate monument debate continues, Kehinde Wiley’s new statue challenges the heroic narrative 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z 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 The subjects of the photos — wary soldiers, dead soldiers, stoic families, Confederate spies, would-be assassins, Abraham Lincoln himself — are tiny, ghostly. The lighting designer: First, do no harm 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z When the story briefly takes us to Jackson, Miss., Fowler lingers over the fact that Jackson’s airport is named after Medgar Evers, while Mississippi still flies the Confederate flag. When You Hate Your Neighbor, and Then Your Kids Start Dating 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z The Graffiti House, a general store built in 1858 that sits on the battlefield, was used as a hospital, first by the Confederates and then by Union forces. Journeys: In Virginia, Touring Lesser-Known Civil War Sites 2011-04-29T20:30:10Z When each day would wrap, he’d return to his hotel, which offered a Confederate menu. Is Hollywood ready for the brilliant weirdness of Lakeith Stanfield? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Recently, our town removed a Confederate statue from our cemetery. Why Can’t I Appreciate the Confederate Flag and Also Condemn Racism? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z From days of privation in 1863 we see a Confederate cookbook with recipes for imitation oysters and apple pie without apples. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z Immigrant laborers and farmers introduced the St. Andrew’s Cross to the Confederate flag, and the Highlanders’ burning cross was adopted as a symbol by the Ku Klux Klan. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Polymathic Cultural Historian, Dies at 81 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z But, while the “culture war” grinds on, no creator of film, television, music or art is likely to use the Confederate flag unthinkingly ever again – and most will choose not to use it at all. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Spencer has no shame, which he proved by publicly threatening the life of a black attorney advocating the removal of Confederate statues. “Who Is America?” and “Big Brother” separately and together illuminate our racial divide 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z “Confederates” creates this tension between its two parts but doesn’t do anything with it. Review: ‘Confederates’ Talks Race in Double Time 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z An August rally organized by white nationalists to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee became deadly when a counter-protester was killed by a car driven into a crowd. Dave Matthews harnesses local roots with Concert for Charlottesville 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z One widely distributed photograph captioned “1st Louisiana Native Guard” was claimed by its online retailer to depict members of the first all-black Confederate unit. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z Dramatic and at times violent conflicts have erupted over monuments to Confederate soldiers, institutions named after slave traders and plantation owners, the history lessons children learn and the books they read. A Thanksgiving History Lesson in a Handful of Corn 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Someone seems to have left the portal open, too, because this place has several spirits, including a Confederate soldier and a little boy who reportedly drowned in the cistern in the basement. Like a good scare? Here are five haunted hotels with stories fit for true-crime files. 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Friday morning, the Confederate battle flag was lowered with what I now believe is the right amount of ceremony and spectacle it takes to dispel a 150-year-old myth. Lonnae O’Neal: How I felt when the Confederate flag finally came down 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Confederate and Union sympathizers on the home front would send delicate gifts of pin cushions and mittens to the battlefields, and the extras were sometimes just abandoned at campsites when knapsacks grew too heavy. Antiques: ‘Homefront & Battlefield’ at American Textile History Museum 2012-06-28T21:22:20Z She can’t even get her cousins to stop flying the Confederate flag. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Both Union and Confederate dead had been interred there. Father's Day, every day, with my disabled son 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to assert that, unlike the swastika, there are no plausible alternative meanings of the Confederate flag. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z Yet engaging with the old ones, which were new once, can also be pleasurable and valuable — unless they have become the equivalent of Confederate statues that need to come down. The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z This year, at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in Atlanta, the organization’s attendees debated the problem of Confederate monuments and statues during a plenary session. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z If Trevor Noah had his way, the Confederate flag would be a black mark on America’s history, shunned by everyone for its hateful symbolism. Trevor Noah wonders why we still have Confederate memorials: “Some people support the monuments, while other people are black” 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Brautigan was livid when the publicity material for his novel “A Confederate General From Big Sur” linked him with the Beats. Books of The Times: Richard Brautigan Biography, ‘Jubilee Hitchhiker’ 2012-05-22T17:36:11Z Though Deadline reported that the flap over “Confederate” prompted the “Black America” team to reveal its premise, the project has been in the works for about a year. Amazon’s ‘Black America’ Imagines a New Nation in the South 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Some call Confederate monuments relics of a past time to honor the dead, regardless of their dated viewpoints, and touchstones to recall history. The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z After rolling a clip of a very “defeated” President Obama delivering his Charleston speech, Oliver turned his attention to the Confederate flag debate that has erupted in the wake of the shooting. John Oliver has the perfect solution to the Confederate flag debate 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The Mississippi natives Faith Hill and Charlie Worsham spoke out in favor of removing Confederate iconography from the Mississippi state flag. Country Music Struggles to Meet the Moment. Again. 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Later they are both taken by surprise by a Confederate colonel. Theater Review: ‘Row After Row’ Explores Civil War Re-Enactors 2014-01-24T03:01:02Z To cut off the Confederate Army from access to new uniforms, tents and bedding, the Union troops even kidnapped female knitters, weavers and seamstresses and deported them northward. Antiques: ‘Homefront & Battlefield’ at American Textile History Museum 2012-06-28T21:22:20Z The 2017 screening took place right before a march by white supremacists in Charlottesville led activists around the country to call for the removal of statues honoring Confederate leaders. Perspective | HBO Max isn’t censoring ‘Gone With the Wind.’ It’s reframing it. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The rejection of Confederate iconography proved too great a leap for the General Lee to clear, and Hazzard reruns were yanked from the air by TV Land. The Cosby Show, The Dukes of Hazzard and the Ethics of Reruns 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z About 20 percent of draftees to the Union Army, we are told, never reported; about 12 percent of the Confederate Army deserted. Exhibition Review: ?Discovering the Civil War? at National Archives 2010-04-29T21:21:00Z The Confederates invoked the Bible to defend slavery, and religious reasons were used to oppose the Civil Rights Act. Kansas, Arizona and the GOP’s terrible new Jim Crow-style laws 2014-02-26T13:23:00Z PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — The Confederate flag was on the run earlier this summer. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Later in the war, she served as an emissary in Europe for no less than Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Karen Abott's history of four Civil War women who spied or lied 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Duke considers this for a moment before launching into a debate about Confederate statues. What is ‘Us’ about? Winston Duke is ready to tell you. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Did he perhaps inherit the Confederate Army buckle that is mixed in with the eyeglasses? Antiques: Shipwreck Relics From Andrea Doria and Lusitania 2010-06-17T21:40:00Z Mr. Henry’s company removed other Confederate statues, cannons and assorted items from Richmond over the next nine days. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Across the hall, amid a dozen or so family photos is one of her grandfather, who was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. Patricia Altschul, 78, Is the Dowager Countess of ‘Southern Charm’ 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z 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 His handsome red brick church, now named Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, lies a block from the Alabama State Capitol presided over by a statue of Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. 36 Hours in Montgomery, Ala. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Once, the yearbook was called the Confederate and athletic teams were the Rebels. How one pocket of Utah is confronting the word ‘Dixie’ and all of its associations 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The Confederate flag is an exceptional affront, a legacy of segregation and racism. When our icons tumble 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z He compared his critics with the “Gone With the Wind” character Ashley Wilkes, an equivocating Confederate officer whose Old World sense of etiquette becomes a broken compass after the war. When Bravo Comes to Charleston 2014-04-18T19:56:40Z Protesters in Portsmouth, Virginia, covered a Confederate monument in the city with trash bags and sheets Wednesday, several hours after the city’s council members met to figure out ways to relocate it. Protesters in Virginia cover Confederate monument with trash bags 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z A Zoom wedding vs. a Confederate statue: There will be tippling at the first, toppling at the second. Style Invitational Week 1394: Two movies, one line 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The bad characters are cartoonish ogres, who use a racial slur throughout the book, and go on “night rides, shooting off guns and flying the Confederate flag.” New Southern Fiction By Percival Everett, Wiley Cash and Andrew Siegrist 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Hull flanks one with American and Confederate flags, and he slathers all three with slate-gray paint. A Klansman with a megaphone: Steven Hull's sordid art laments troubled times 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Then Chambers douses a Confederate flag with gasoline and lights it on fire. This marijuana-smoking, Confederate flag-burning Senate candidate is having a ball 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The ballooning number of Confederate statues around the turn of the 20th century, some historians argue, was a reflection of the changing narrative of the Civil War. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z As I watched “I Married an Angel,” the wan Encores! offering that opened on Wednesday night at New York City Center, my mind kept flashing to debates about Confederate monuments. Review: In ‘I Married an Angel,’ a 1930s Musical Falls to Earth 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Production on “Confederate” will not begin until after the final season of “Game of Thrones,” which will debut in the second half of 2018, at the earliest. HBO Boss Regrets Announcement of ‘Confederate,’ but Not its Concept 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z A month before entering the race, he tweeted a video of himself using a razor blade to peel a Confederate flag sticker off what appears to be a public utility box. He’s raised and spent millions running against Marjorie Taylor Greene 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z At Ole Miss, a Confederate statue remains but received an updated plaque, explaining how the monument got there and why it hasn’t been removed. ‘Lost City of Z’ alters history for the sake of modern audiences. Are we okay with that? 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z In “The Neutral Ground,” “Daily Show” producer CJ Hunt explores debate over Confederate monuments through the lens of Reconstruction-era myths that still govern modern-day narratives about racism and slavery. AFI Docs shows us where the histories are buried, and why that matters more than ever 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z It also knocks down the theory, embraced by some Boothies but few professional scholars, that the assassin had support from the Confederate government’s leaders. For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z As historian Kevin Waite pointed out in an op-ed in The Times, California, too, is home to Confederate monuments — including one in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z A sweeping look at the state over time, ranging from dinosaur fossils to Native American pottery to a model of the sunken Confederate Civil War submarine H.L. At South Carolina’s only national park, paddle through some of the country’s oldest trees 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Two women lead a free tour of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments each month. Neighbors thought they witnessed a tragedy. Then a sign appeared: ‘You Saved My Life!’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The specific acts of gruesome violence, the hyperstylized sex, the indelible images of a zombie Confederate soldier shooting people with magic guns are all designed, deliberately, for consumption as a comic book. Preacher's AMC makeover gives fans reason to hope 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z What’s certain is that the assassination was an extension of the war, fueled by Confederate sympathies and virulent racism. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Whether it’s the mundane absence of a thank-you note or the highly charged presence of a Confederate flag, a calm and humble approach — one friend to another — is nearly always worth it. What Can I Say to the ‘QAnon Mom’ Next Door? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The former painting shows the word "Never" in large letters set against the Confederate flag. Confederate flag paintings to go on display at Laguna Art Museum 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Schaum formerly worked as a paralegal for Lyons, chief trial counsel of the Southern Legal Resource Center, which is known for filing lawsuits that challenge restrictions on the display of the Confederate flag. White supremacist’s wild ponzi scheme 2012-09-05T19:19:00Z But no one at Team Henry had ever considered dismantling a bronze and stone sculpture of a Confederate general until the office of Virginia’s governor, Ralph Northam, called in June 2020. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Indeed, the immediate neighborhood is saturated in Confederate culture. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z This is why, to let many Southerners tell it, none of their Confederate ancestors actually fought over slavery. Lonnae O’Neal: What’s underneath the forgiveness and activism? 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z On a larger scale is Robert Arbogast’s take on Confederate war statues, whose plinth identifies it as a likeness of Robert E. Lee. Review | In the galleries: At two Washington spaces, art of a political caliber 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z We follow the ebb and flow of beliefs and emotions, hopes and fears, from the invasion of Confederate forces into Pennsylvania in 1863 through the tumult of Reconstruction. Seeing the Civil War From the Ground Up 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z He wrote the foreword for a book by a Confederate apologist and 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Rand Paul’s absolutely cringeworthy Soul Food Sit-Down with Larry Wilmore may be the most awkward 6 minutes of television ever 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z It was not malevolence or bigotry that inspired celebration of Confederate symbolism at TF South, but a byproduct of white privilege density. My hometown Confederate war 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z I don’t like the Confederate flag, but I refused to be especially troubled by it. Lonnae O’Neal: I drive past a Confederate flag nearly every day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Instead, he supported Langston’s white opponent, a former Confederate, prompting one editorialist to charge Douglass with “a vain sacrifice of race to the fetish of party and personal pique.” Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z To me, this is the same as voicing support for the KKK, Confederate flag and other hate-inspired groups. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mother struggles with daughter’s insults 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The first image in “BlacKkKlansman” is a famous, stirring shot from “Gone With the Wind,” of wounded Confederate soldiers around the Atlanta railroad station under a tattered battle flag. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z From 1921, when the contest began in Atlantic City, through World War II, only one woman representing a former Confederate state won the competition. Op-Ed Contributor: Racial Politics and Miss America 2013-01-16T00:57:43Z Confederate commanders deployed their troops against marauders from other Rebel units. How We Remember the Civil War 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Charlottesville, “blood and soil,” debates over Confederate statues and college buildings named for white supremacists: these are markers of a different kind of return to history, one that directly implicates architecture. 'Make New History,' the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, brings the focus back to square one 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Bradford, the artist, said that it was important to have a public process around replacing the Confederate statues so that the broader citizenry could grow from a painful chapter. Trump Aside, Artists and Preservationists Debate the Rush to Topple Statues 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z “The Confederate project was to create a republic that enshrined slavery and white supremacy in its constitution,” he said. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The gaps recall the empty pedestals and vacant spaces that now dot the landscape where Confederate statues once stood, many erected around the time these tunes were recorded. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z The “Dead Confederates” narrator knows he’s doing something wrong. Books of The Times: Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen?s Empty Nest 2010-03-08T08:48:00Z As the Confederates approached through the battlefield, they shot any wounded men that they saw. Television: Old-Time Stuff Is Not Forgotten 2011-05-27T18:40:43Z Biggs, a free black man and veterinarian, moved just outside Gettysburg, Pa., before the Civil War broke out, only to be forced to flee before the invading Confederate army. For Henry Louis Gates Jr., a lifelong interest in family history in 'Finding Your Roots' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z He recalled growing up somewhat inured to its statuary, having formed, like many Black Southerners, a sort of carapace against the Confederate hoopla. Adam Pendleton Is Rethinking the Museum 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z After the Civil War, thousands of Confederate loyalists fled to Brazil, where Emperor Pedro II, eager to boost his country’s cotton industry, welcomed them with generous tax breaks and subsidies. Ryan Lochte’s Perfect Summer Scandal 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z If you wear a Confederate flag, if a minority person says I’m offended, you have to go change your shirt and hang your head. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z It was made by Esther Matthews for her grandson, who died of wounds in the Confederate Army. Exhibition Review: ‘Homefront and Battlefield’ Looks at Civil War Quilts 2014-05-05T20:59:16Z It’s the state where one of the largest Confederate flags in the country flies, just outside of Danville, erected in response to the city’s decision to take its own banner down. How three powerful movies this year took on Virginia’s troubled racial history 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z 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 The Confederate cavalry requisitioned them during the Civil War, and the Carnegies bred them with Tennessee walkers and Arabians to improve the stock. On a Georgia Island, a Lot of Good Food and Plenty of Nothing 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z When he died in 2013, his kids removed all Confederate paraphernalia from the restaurants and took down the Confederate flags. A barbecue case that helped the cause of civil rights 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z He had just turned 30, and he had absolutely no idea what the Confederate flag actually represented. I slept with the enemy: Here’s what an unlikely romance taught me about racism, Donald Trump, and our cultural obsession with male rebellion 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Interestingly, the flag that we recognize as the Confederate flag was a battle flag, not the flag for the Confederate states. Roundup: Gay pride flag recognized, L.A. historic house in danger of destruction 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z The issue comes to a point when he confronts his white half brother, who is fighting with the Confederates, on the battlefield. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z He is not likely to pick it up, because, in light of the outcry over the Confederate statues in the South, he fears being misjudged as racist. Will Civil War reenactments die out? 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Now the producers of “Confederate” are responding to critics who did not appreciate the fact that HBO greenlit a series written and created by two white men envisioning modern-day slavery. “Game of Thrones” producers defend “Confederate” after backlash 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z When Union troops cut off their supply lines, Lee’s men abandoned Petersburg and nearby Richmond, the Confederate capital. When the guns of the Civil War fell silent 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The Union had taken Memphis early in the war, and by 1865, freed slaves and returning Confederate vets ballooned the city’s population. ‘A Massacre in Memphis’: a day of shame in the River City 2014-01-08T21:54:41Z To Congress’s growing horror, he acted on this belief by giving pardons to Confederates and appointing traitors to positions of power throughout the South. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The Confederate defensive earthworkings are still evident around the property’s farmhouse. Perspective | ‘This is going to be a bad one’: A new pest is causing quarantines in Va. and Pa. 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z But, Noah said there were fun things too, like when a piece of fabric divided a nation, flashing a photo of the Confederate flag. “Sh*t year, really. 2015 was a sh*t year”: Trevor Noah looks back at the year in horror 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z A Confederate statue and the last roll of toilet paper: The toilet paper is worth fighting for. Style Invitational Week 1394: Two movies, one line 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Back when this building too was an art gallery, the daughter of the then owner reported making direct eye contact with a “battle-weary” Confederate soldier, butternut uniform, rifle and all. A 'perfect storm' for the paranormal: touring America's most haunted town 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The three-day Battle of Gettysburg ended the Confederate invasion of the North and resulted in staggering losses — an estimated 51,000 casualties in all for the campaign — for both sides. 36 Hours in Gettysburg, Pa. 2013-06-27T23:20:01Z In the last few years a loud debate has raged across the country over what to do with Confederate statues. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Dispute rages over what the Confederate flag really signifies. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z I pulled off the highway near Front Royal, cruising by a Confederate flag, a 7 Express Mini Mart and a large cemetery. Camping without the hassle: New service rents you all the gear you need, plus the car 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Part one details the work of suffrage pioneers and the clash between the rights of African American women and efforts to gain support in former Confederate states. New this week: Willie Nelson, Nick race special, ‘Hamilton’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Some have been given back to the Italian American and Confederate groups that paid for their display, and others, like the Colston statue, will eventually be exhibited in museums. Controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down. Fixing the world that built them is harder. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Another series, “Probing the Land,” works off photographs of the statues of Confederate generals in Richmond, Va. This Artist Got His Start as an I.C.U. Nurse 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Confederate soldiers as they fell near the Burnside bridge, Maryland, in 1862. The haunting power of old photographs 2011-07-08T10:50:57Z Satellites, after all, are indifferent to whether naming a highway after a Confederate leader in the early 1900s was a form of intimidation at a time when the Ku Klux Klan was spreading nationwide. When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z An inflammatory segregationist, Wallace flew the Confederate flag over his statehouse and promised to defy federal law by personally turning away any black student who tried to integrate the University of Alabama. J.F.K. at Dawn’s Early Light of Reality TV 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, in South Carolina, debate is amping up again over the Confederate flag that flies at the state capital. 'The Ferguson Report' offers a damning indictment 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Quentin grabs large t-shirts for Radar and Ben, which he doesn’t realize until later are sporting the Confederate flag with the words ‘HERITAGE NOT HATE.’ These Are the Biggest Differences Between The "Paper Towns" Movie and Book 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Today, while we still bicker about the meaning of the Confederate flag, Butler makes a fascinating subject for reexamination. ‘Secessia’ is Kent Wascom’s vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Afterward, in the presence of a large group of journalists, they lit on fire and watched burn a Confederate flag. Unite the Right 2 was a failure — but American fascism is not dead 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Similarly, Southerners who embrace neo-Confederate myths and fly Confederate flags are not, necessarily, racists. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z Ta-Nehisi Coates, in The Atlantic, presented the case for HBO dropping the show: “the symbols point to something Confederate’s creators don’t seem to understand — the war is over for them, not us.” Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba! Actor Opines on Sex, Race, Bond 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The Road to Appomattox West Coast premiere of Catherine Bush’s drama about a married couple at a crossroads while retracing the final retreat of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 8-15: 'The Temptation of St. Antony' and more 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z She made it that much harder to say that Confederate Bean Soup is just a recipe. Less Than Accidental Racist: Why Paula Deen’s Comments Insult Her Fans Too 2013-06-20T17:10:41Z Occasionally a Confederate officer will show up at the gate, and the military situation sometimes arises in conversation, but the conflict is more a premise than a subject. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z It got worse: People started showing up to concerts adorned in the flag and wearing various Confederate flag memorabilia. Tom Petty on Confederate flag: “People just need to think about how it looks to a black person. It’s just awful.” 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z One image shows a Confederate spy being executed; one of his descendants recently recognized him and e-mailed Ms. Gallagher. Antiques: The Everyday Lives of American Slaves 2011-01-06T22:27:39Z "The Confederate flag is one of those symbols that should really only be seen on T-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help the rest of us identify the worst people in the world." John Oliver takes aim at Confederate flag after Charleston shooting 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “It grounded debate, just like Confederate monuments now are doing for the country,” he said. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The chapter's leader is calling for the removal of the Confederate Memorial Carving that depicts Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. NAACP wants Confederate carving removed from Georgia's Stone Mountain 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Did I believe we should always honor our gallant Confederate dead? 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 carnage in the fight was significant: After Union soldiers surrendered, the Confederates disproportionately took white soldiers hostage as prisoners of war and slaughtered hundreds of black soldiers, sending survivors into the slave trade. ‘Roots,’ Remade for a New Era 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z His book “Confederates in the Attic,” from 1998, shattered his readers’ understanding of the Civil War. Tony Horwitz, a Historian Who Reckoned Fearlessly with the Legacy of the Civil War 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z It is good that Confederate symbols are being pulled, and if laws change, all the better. Lonnae O’Neal: What’s underneath the forgiveness and activism? 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The Confederate leader left the state when he was still a toddler and grew up in Mississippi, which he represented in the United States Senate as well as the House before the Civil War. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z A new museum highlights the history of the island’s Fort Warren, including its role in housing Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. In Transit: Gateway to Boston Harbor Islands 2011-06-08T17:50:56Z The Richmond lab’s 2012 Visualizing Emancipation project, for example, plots out intricate interactions between federal policy, the Union and Confederate Armies, and thousands of enslaved people, illuminating how liberation unfolded on the ground. Lab in Richmond Animates Comprehensive 1932 U.S. Atlas 2013-12-25T22:20:08Z Young is capable of talking back to his most imposing forebears, as in "For the Confederate Dead," which rewrites Robert Lowell's famous Civil War elegy: What do poets Kevin Young, Lucia Perillo and Allen Ginsberg have in common? 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z “Black Confederate Ghost Story,” for instance, calls on “African-American apparitions hung, / burned, or drowned before anyone alive was born.” A bounty of literary riches this week in D.C. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z He was a vicious white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Thorny discussions had been underway for decades about how to address Monument Avenue’s Confederate statues. For Richmond, a Compelling New Chapter 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z And that my great-grandfather fought in the Civil War on the Union side because the five so-called civilized tribes were Confederate supporters. ‘Our history has been so consciously suppressed,’ says historian John Whittington Franklin on America’s relationship with Black history 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z And national efforts to dismantle statues for Confederate generals like Robert E. Lee have widened to include figures like Christopher Columbus and Winston Churchill. Theodore Roosevelt Statue Removal Begins at Museum of Natural History 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z "The Confederate Sketches of Adalbert Volck" will include the pictorial propaganda created by a Baltimore dentist who sided with the South. Smithsonian opens Civil War art from North, South 2012-03-30T12:01:04Z The National Confederate Museum will open its doors soon. The next HBO show from the “Game of Thrones” team will start a civil war 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Bryant said she doesn’t support the Confederate flag, but is trying to limit government censorship. Illinois cancels band from fair lineup over Confederate flag 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Life is unfair, it seems, even for a Confederate with a cause. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z A Virginia law that allows cities to move or alter Confederate memorials they own goes into effect July 1. Protesters in Virginia cover Confederate monument with trash bags 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z A Missouri woman, captured in a video last month, draped in a Confederate flag, shouting “K.K.K.” and telling a Black Lives Matter supporter, “I will teach my grandkids to hate you all.” What Is Your True ‘Character’? And Who’s to Judge It? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Confederate diplomats framed their struggle in accordance with liberal principles of self-determination. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z From New York to North Carolina, more than 400 Confederate symbols have been relocated, renamed or removed in recent years at costs that sometimes run into the millions. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Speaking with Vulture’s Josef Adalian, the producers of “Confederate” acknowledged the sensitive subject of the show, but promised that the drama would not trivialize the issue of slavery. “Game of Thrones” producers defend “Confederate” after backlash 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z The towel is printed with the Confederate flag. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Stuart and its evocation of Lost Cause ideology, which holds that the Confederate states were the noble targets of Northern aggression. Kehinde Wiley’s Times Square Monument: That’s No Robert E. Lee 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z In fact, Texas has two holidays:Confederate Memorial Day and Confederate Heroes day. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z But it would be a proper resting place for the ugly history of America’s Confederate monuments. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z He has defended Confederate monuments and downplayed the effects of racism in America. Some famous rappers backed Trump’s campaign. Did it matter? 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Confederates cited the Declaration in asserting their right to secede, but scorned the language of equality. Declaration of Independence still inspires activists 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The band’s logo features a steam locomotive flying Confederate flags. Illinois cancels band from fair lineup over Confederate flag 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The recent wave of Black Lives Matter protests ought to have ended the idea of the Confederate flag as an innocuous symbol, but the battle continues. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z In Selma, Schapiro captured a woman watching from an office window, a Confederate flag hanging from the floor above. 'Road to Freedom' photos span 50 years of racial division 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z On Twitter, the photos inspired ire over the alleged racial insensitivity of the use of the quote, which for some carried connotations of the American history of slavery and Confederate rebellion. Meryl Streep and co-stars attract backlash over Suffragette T-shirt slogan 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Slavery’s dark legacy has resurfaced in debates over removing Confederate monuments and whether Georgetown University owes reparations to descendants of slaves it sold to stay afloat in the 19th century. Can the new ‘Roots’ help us understand America’s current racial divide? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z One of Horwitz's previous books, "Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War," remains, a dozen years later, a must read. 'Midnight Rising' illuminates John Brown 2011-11-03T22:11:08Z He points to a sloping field that repeatedly changed possession between Union and Confederate troops. A black college closed in 1955, but its fading alumni fight to pass on a legacy 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z With its costumes, the Reconstruction-era Klan liked to perpetuate the legend that its members were the ghosts of Confederate soldiers. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z This is no small feat given that the tale involves Benjamin’s demented half sister, the infamous massacre of Union-sympathizing German immigrants by local Confederates, and a giant panther. The Good, the Bad and the Panther 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z And earlier this month, the US Defense Department banned the Confederate flag and “other divisive symbols” from all military bases. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z But the imagery of last week’s siege offered something else: a warped cinema verité of right-wing extremism with waving Confederate flags and white-power poses in Capitol halls. A theater of propaganda: The Capitol, cameras and selfies 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z JC: You’re assuming that a white person who believes in the Confederate flag is listening to his black neighbor who doesn’t like it. Jimmy Carter and Jacqueline Woodson on Race, Religion and Rights 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z But now the general public has become more aware of it, in part thanks to recent debates over Confederate and other Civil War monuments. Seeing Native Americans Nowhere, and Everywhere 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Even in Ohio, where I live now, I noticed a spike in Confederate flags. How close we are to slavery: America’s horrible legacy still deeply runs through the nation’s veins 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z But as Johnson vetoed bill after bill designed to protect black Southerners and white loyalists and strip former Confederates of power, tensions between Congress and the president mounted. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z I am no longer offended by the Confederate flag — not, at least, without a good deal of additional context. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z And just weeks after that incident, she adds, other right-wing protesters broke into the Capitol and, among other acts, waved the Confederate flag. How We Remember the Civil War 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Some accounts affiliate him with the 47th Virginia Infantry of the Confederate Army as a cook. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Twenty years later, she published “Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters,” a revelatory study of the commander of the Confederate army during the Civil War. Elizabeth Brown Pryor, biographer of Robert E. Lee and Clara Barton, dies 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z 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 In 1997 the university squelched the flying of Confederate flags during games by banning sticks in the stadium under the guise of fan safety. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z Her husband was an aide to Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z He remembers the place as “Confederate territory,” a perception made all the more meaningful to him because so many of his schoolmates were white. Surgeon General Jerome Adams may be the nicest guy in the Trump administration. But is that what America needs right now? 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Sure, their car had a Confederate flag, but the Dukes were just “good ol’ boys, never meanin’ no harm”, as the theme tune had it. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Huling compared the moment to enslaved people in Confederate states gathering in churches on New Year’s Eve in 1862, praying for the deliverance of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Perspective | The enduring moments of 2021, as told by Post reporters On Wednesday evening’s edition of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart turned his attention to defenders of the Confederate flag, what he referred to as an “archaic symbol of racist insurrection.” “Archaic symbol of racist insurrection”: Jon Stewart destroys logic of Confederate flag supporters 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The latter piece shows two Confederate flags flying in opposite directions. Confederate flag paintings to go on display at Laguna Art Museum 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z In that Montgomery arena, two flags hung over the stage: American and Confederate. Author explores the early years of Motown in ‘The Art of Grace’ 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z That statue was removed last year; three other Confederate monuments in the city received the same fate. A Canopy of Peace will rise in New Orleans at WWII museum 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The 1859 Confederate anthem “I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land” was written for Northern minstrel performers, McGraw and Meacham note. Review | How American music became both a reflection and an instrument of social change 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Sheriff Irving agreed on the afternoon of the first removal to deploy deputies to help protect Mr. Henry and his team as they began to dismantle a monument to the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z We do not want to obliterate history, and the absence of Confederate monuments will not result in the absence of racism. The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z "That's right, the Confederate battle flag was flying at full-staff in front of the state Capitol. Although, perhaps the bigger question is why it was flying at any staff at all," he said. John Oliver takes aim at Confederate flag after Charleston shooting 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z How did the Union expect freed slaves serving in the northern armies to be treated if captured by the Confederates? 'Lincoln's Code': the man who wrote the rules of war 2012-11-14T20:37:05Z Over the last year, Ivey built a large deck for Sunday cookouts, positioned a flatscreen for Nascar viewing and turned his garage into a workout studio with a large Confederate flag over his weight set. Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Many Southerners who observe Confederate Memorial Day argue that they are merely celebrating their heritage. Trevor Noah wonders why we still have Confederate memorials: “Some people support the monuments, while other people are black” 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Stuart in the late ’70s, the school symbol was Stuart riding a horse and waving the Confederate flag,” Ms. Moore and Mr. Cohen wrote. Julianne Moore and Film Producer Start Petition to Remove Confederate General From School Name 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z After slavery was abolished, the Angola plantation was purchased by a major in the Confederate Army who was awarded a lease to operate the state’s penitentiary. From a slave house to a prison cell: The history of Angola Plantation 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Confederate troops murdered enslaved Black men seeking freedom for the sheer hell of it. How We Remember the Civil War 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The two discussed the rights of various parties to fly the Confederate flag — a discussion that soon turned into one about policing speech. Jon Stewart and Andrew Napolitano weigh in on PC policing: The “right not to be offended” doesn’t exist 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Charlottesville was where white nationalists descended in 2017 to protest plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Charlottesville drama teacher to get special Tony Award 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Some Confederates, despite adopting their own flag, expressed reluctance to let go of the musical stars and stripes. Colin Kaepernick and the Radical Uses of “The Star-Spangled Banner” 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z On a white supremacist Web site, the accused gunman, Dylann Roof, was pictured holding a Confederate flag. Civilities: Why can you fly the rainbow flag but I can’t fly the Confederate flag? 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Branded a “Yankee sympathizer” for predicting that Union forces will overpower the Confederates, Bill reluctantly takes up arms for the South in this “losing cause.” 'True Blood' recap: Bon Temps celebrates life as body count grows 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z A Confederate flag-themed bikini and replica of the Titanic are among the absurdities she uses to help illustrate race in modern-day America. Fall reading: 12 books to keep you occupied for the rest of 2020 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z She also won a supporting actress Emmy in 1994 for her character in the “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.” Cicely Tyson paved way for Black actors to follow footsteps 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Such was the case with a recent NPR report on a Jacksonville, Fla. high school named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee that was considering a name change. What "Loki," "Lucifer" and "Cruella" tell us about our love affair with rewriting ugly stories 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z There are no heroes evident in its snarl of Union and Confederate cavalrymen, attacking one another at close range with sabers and pistols. Antiques: Artist?s Heroic Struggle to Make Heroic Paintings 2011-06-02T22:41:34Z 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 Bravo skims the surface with impressive control and a great deal of visual wit and, every so often — as with a shot of a Confederate flag — gestures toward deeper, unrealized ideas. At Sundance, a Glorious Diversity of Voices Breaks Through 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It joins other public statues depicting Southern or Confederate figures, including Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, that some are arguing represent the country's racist past and should be removed. Jefferson Memorial, Confederate statues enter national race debate 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z When she was in high school in the ’90s, there was another period of tension over Confederate symbols. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The film opens with a Confederate flag owner who joined Acorn and speaks highly of the way the organization protected his home from foreclosure. Review: ‘Acorn and the Firestorm’ Strives to Revive the Community Organizing Group’s Reputation 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z And young men and women old enough to drive their cars past statues honoring Confederate generals are old enough to get that. Perspective | In the Va. governor’s race, ‘Beloved’ is reduced to its most explicit parts. That’s obscene. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z In July the House of Representatives voted to remove statues honoring Confederate figures, including one of Davis, from the U.S. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Mary Anna Jackson, the widow of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, became a stalwart of the Lost Cause, publishing a popular memoir of him and supporting Confederate organizations. How We Remember the Civil War 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z But in the meantime, the city of Richmond decided it was time to remove its Confederate iconography. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Dupuy-Spencer, a former New Yorker, paints overtly political subjects too: a Trump rally, a toppled Confederate statue. 3 Knockout Art Shows to See in Los Angeles Right Now 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Lopez’s script probes the profound impact of these historical markers on a wounded Confederate soldier returning from war and two former slaves, as the three celebrate a harsh but meaningful Passover together. New on Seattle stages: Kafka, a poignant Passover, a statement made without clothes 2013-03-28T22:04:00Z President Trump rattled off a series of tweets on Thursday morning bemoaning the disappearance of Confederate monuments. Jimmy Kimmel Says Trump Tower Is Now Its Own Monument to Racism 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z 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 New visitor center planned at Fort Fisher, Confederate stronghold in N.C. Hey, American Airlines, where’s refund for my travel nightmare? 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z To any student of the Civil War, flying the Confederate naval jack seems absurd, stupid even. 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 It published a defense of the Confederate flag two weeks after the massacre at an African American church in Charleston, S.C., by a white supremacist gunman who had posed with the flag. Bannon molded Breitbart into a far-right sledgehammer. How it will be wielded in the Trump era? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Intrepid, if not naive, a few nights later I witnessed a cross-burning and a display of Confederate flags in support of white supremacy and nationalism. Civilities: Why can you fly the rainbow flag but I can’t fly the Confederate flag? 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z In my state of Alabama, Jefferson Davis’s birthday is a state holiday, Confederate Memorial Day is a state holiday. The author of ‘Just Mercy’ says we’ve made talking about race political — and that has to change 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z In “North of the Border,” Al and Earn find themselves in a white fraternity house, surrounded by naked pledges, mounted guns and a giant Confederate flag. He Gives ‘Atlanta’ Anxiety. And That’s a Good Thing. 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The Virginia legislature even continues to pay US$5 per year to cemeteries in the state for every Confederate soldier buried in them. Why the case for the removal of Confederate memorials isn’t so clear-cut 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Early on, Ms. Marshall took some students to clean up a nearby cemetery where a heritage group plants Confederate flags near the gravestones of Civil War soldiers. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z There they saw the windowpane where a cousin, Ludie Baugh, etched the letters L-U-D-I-E into the glass while watching Confederate soldiers march by — a scene that appears in several Faulkner works. 2010-02-11T15:09:00Z The Confederate Memorial Carving is believed to be the highest relief sculpture in the world, located 400 feet off the ground on the side of Stone Mountain. NAACP wants Confederate carving removed from Georgia's Stone Mountain 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Hawke notes how the Confederate statues he drove past in Virginia every day while filming are now covered in graffiti, or destroyed. Nearing 50, Ethan Hawke’s latest radical transformation — violent abolitionist John Brown — suits an explorer of ‘intense faith’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z After June’s racist church massacre in Charleston, the Confederate flag finally came down from the South Carolina statehouse. Dump the Confederate Flag. Dump Cosby. but Don't Dump the Reruns 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The windows for generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson recently had two Confederate flags removed after protests about their proslavery interpretation. A cathedral like none other: Moon rock and Darth Vader blend into Gothic architecture 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z When I was young, my parents hung a Confederate flag in our home. Why Can’t I Appreciate the Confederate Flag and Also Condemn Racism? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z He begins with “Intruder in the Dust” and one character’s striking reverie about the moments before the ill-fated charge that led to the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg. The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The Confederate Army built these camps after its defeat at Gettysburg, and stayed through the winter of 1863-64. Journeys: In Virginia, Touring Lesser-Known Civil War Sites 2011-04-29T20:30:10Z I don’t think the Confederate flag is an innocent symbol, or just about “pride.” The Cosby Show, The Dukes of Hazzard and the Ethics of Reruns 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z On April 6, 1862, Confederate soldiers stormed federal troops camped around Shiloh hill. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Dave Robicheaux, the narrator of this robust regional series, is an Iberia Parish sheriff’s detective with the melancholy air of a man who occasionally sees the hollow-eyed ghosts of the Confederate dead. A Gumbo of Crime: From the Bayou to Britain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Or maybe it was the relative silence of late afternoon in the countryside, without the noise of the city, or the implied cacophony of all those Confederate memorials that crave attention in Montgomery. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z “Confederates,” her new play at the Signature Theater, is one answer. Dominique Morisseau Asks: ‘What Does Freedom Look Like Now?’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Oliver did mention that lowering the Confederate flag to half-mast in South Carolina is pretty complicated, requiring a 2/3 majority vote in the state legislature. Here's What John Oliver Thinks We Should Do With the Confederate Flag 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “I took the Confederate flag and made it my flag,” he said. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Alabama’s flag is a giant crimson X, Saint Andrew’s Cross, that’s almost a pentimento of the Confederate flag. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z There’s Benjamin, a disgruntled Floridian who keeps showing up at his City Council meetings railing against the streets in his historically black neighborhood still bearing the names of Confederates like Nathan Bedford Forrest. What Street Names Say About Us 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Gen. Benjamin Butler, the fort’s commander, met with Colonel Mallory’s agent, who refused to denounce Mallory’s allegiance to the Confederate States of America. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z He counters the argument that the Civil War wasn’t about slavery by pointing to Confederate states’ own secession statements that explicitly say otherwise. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The battle began brewing when the Confederate ship, the CSS Alabama, was docked at Cherbourg Harbor hoping for some repairs. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Food and other items were hard to find there, and Confederate money was almost worthless. When the guns of the Civil War fell silent 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Nicholas Baier, a dreadlocked dealer at the Bowl, was shopping near his station and stumbled upon a shirt with a Confederate flag. The Flea Circus 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z However, the fact that one of our friends insists on flying a large Confederate flag is becoming impossible to ignore. Perspective | Ask Amy: Thanksgivings past are this year’s repast 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z That fear is particularly keen in places where the impulse to memorialization was most intense, in architectural and design projects such as Richmond’s Monument Avenue, which includes memorials to Lee, Jackson, the Confederate general J.E.B. Perspective | What to do when the Confederate statues come down? Leave the pedestals empty. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z How should New Orleans address the fact that, the day after it hired a contractor to remove four of its Confederate statues, the man received death threats and his car was torched? The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Nikki Haley, then the governor of South Carolina, signed a bill removing the Confederate flag from the state’s capitol. What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z There’s Robert Khayat, the former chancellor at Ole Miss who single-handedly got the tens of thousands of fans to stop flying the Confederate flag at football games — by banning sticks inside the stadium. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z This year, another top country star Luke Combs apologized for his past use of the Confederate flag. Country star Morgan Wallen addresses his use of racial slur 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z In an interview with The Washington Post, he declared that profanity in hip-hop is “more damaging” to the black community than the Confederate statues that have come down across the country. Wynton Marsalis Provokes Again With Head-Scratching ‘Ever Fonky Lowdown’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The controversy was part of a larger push to remove statues, monuments, and other images across America honoring certain historical figures, Confederate soldiers, slave owners, and others. Theodore Roosevelt statue removed from front of NYC's Museum of Natural History 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled” screens in competition at Cannes; it’s a remake of Don Siegel’s 1971 Civil War Western about a wounded Union soldier who is nursed back to health in a Confederate girls’ school. What to Stream this Weekend: Sofia Coppola, Noah Baumbach, and Other Directors from this Year’s Cannes 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The tendency to cling to Confederate statues and the whole Confederate myth has stemmed I believe largely from sheer ignorance. 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 His fraternity was picketed by over 1,000 white students waving Confederate flags. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Roughly 150 items were on sale during the auction, including paintings, letters and a Confederate Army uniform worn by Leslie Howard. 'Gone With the Wind' Dress Sells for Six Figures 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z This debate is similar to the one swirling around memorials to Founding Fathers and Confederate fighters, about whether ugly history should be erased. ‘Lost City of Z’ alters history for the sake of modern audiences. Are we okay with that? 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z The messages from the Union side, many tapped out in code to elude Confederate forces, carried the urgings and reflections of Abraham Lincoln, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and other prominent players. Huntington Library sets out to decode thousands of Civil War telegrams hidden for a century: 'It's mind-boggling' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “The Confederate monuments are meant to convey a message that we value the history of oppression,” said Adrienne Edwards, the Walker’s visual arts curator at large. Trump Aside, Artists and Preservationists Debate the Rush to Topple Statues 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Same with marriage equality and efforts to remove the Confederate flag. Digital news for the young: LGBT, weed and the latest from ‘Game of Thrones’ 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z “I felt proud of my family’s slaveholding and Confederate past,” Tomlinson writes of his youthful self, “not because I believed in slavery or racism, but because white Texans honored and celebrated that heritage.” “Tomlinson Hill”: A white man from Texas unearths his family’s shockingly racist past 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z The news has been filled with stories of Southern cities making the somewhat controversial decision to take down some of the Confederate statues, flags, and monuments. Stephen Colbert Helps John Oliver Take Down the Confederacy 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z A call for inclusivity, he says of his work which mimics a statue in Richmond, Virginia, of a Confederate general and will be moved there at the end of the year. Did Michelle Obama veto first version of official portrait? 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Less auspiciously, he was involved in short-lived stagings of "The Selling of the President" and "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All." How do you solve a problem like updating 'Sound of Music'? Director is on the case 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z It is drawn from what may be the world’s largest collection of Confederate firearms: more than 140 Civil War rifles and guns are displayed from Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas and other states. 2010-02-12T23:24:00Z An orange car bearing a Confederate flag design of the roof and nicknamed General Lee was regularly featured in the show. TV Land drops Dukes of Hazzard reruns amid Confederate flag controversy 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z 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 Legally still enslaved, Tubman risked capture by joining the Union’s front lines to defeat Confederate rebels and win slavery’s abolition. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Like the Confederate statues that are finally being torn down across the country, these songs belong in museums, not on pedestals. Why Megyn Kelly’s shoddy understanding of the history of blackface isn’t surprising 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z After the protests in Ferguson, Mo., after the Charleston, S.C., massacre, after widespread national reconsideration of Confederate symbols, we might want more obvious progress. Lonnae O’Neal: I drive past a Confederate flag nearly every day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Growing up in Richmond, Va., the former capital of the Confederate States of America, the remnants of slavery and the Civil War were a constant reminder of the past. Exploring Detroit’s Underground Railroad Sites 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In June, Nascar banned Confederate flags from its race meetings and Mississippi became the final US state to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Country music groups like Lady Antebellum and the Dixie Chicks chose new names in an effort to distance themselves from glorifying the Confederate South. When Culture Really Began to Reckon With White Privilege 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The song describes a hypothetical encounter between a Confederate flag-wearing white Southern man and an urban African-American man in a coffee shop. Brad Paisley defends 'Accidental Racist' duet with LL Cool J 2013-04-09T20:15:37Z So along with Robert E. Lee’s birthday we have Confederate Memorial day, officially celebrated in nine states at various times, mostly in the spring. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z Then drive south to Little Round Top, the craggy hill that Union soldiers, in a downhill bayonet charge, defended against Confederate troops. 36 Hours in Gettysburg, Pa. 2013-06-27T23:20:01Z For sale at an online German neo-Nazi merchandiser is an image of the Confederate flag bearing a "Totenkopf" – a skull and crossbones. Germany’s strange nostalgia for the antebellum American South 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z The difference between a Confederate statue and sourdough starter: Everyone will smile when you announce that the starter will rise again. Style Invitational Week 1394: Two movies, one line 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z While President Donald Trump laments the destruction of Confederate history, one of his hotel chains may celebrate it with a destination stylized after a Southern plantation. Trump-brand hotel to be styled after a Southern antebellum plantation 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Sometimes, James Lee Burke’s ghost-haunted Cajun detective sees Confederate soldiers in the mist. Who Says Crime Doesn’t Pay? In These Novels, It Does 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z 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 According to a report from NPR, nearly 100 Confederate monuments were removed last year. Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue can finally be removed after 5 years of protests, court rules 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Confederate statues aside, though, she feels Southern hospitality typically trumps bigotry. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z It’s a city that commemorates Confederate Memorial Day yet proudly welcomes thousands of international visitors to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the country’s first memorial dedicated to enslaved Black people and lynching victims. 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 In 2019, students at Mary Baldwin University, a private liberal arts college in Staunton, Va., objected to an art exhibition in a university gallery that included Confederate imagery. A Painting of George Floyd Roils Catholic University 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Cohen's plea comes days after Amazon pulled merchandise depicting the Confederate flag from its site. Sacramento rabbi wants Amazon to pull Holocaust-denial books 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Sookie's grandmother is delighted that the gentleman caller is a bona fide Confederate veteran. A 'Sookie Stackhouse' junkie comes clean 2010-05-05T22:34:00Z By summer, as statues of Stonewall Jackson and other Confederates were dismantled, Monument Avenue had turned into a 24-hour protest, meeting point, cookout and dance party. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z No scripts have been written and not a single frame has been shot for “Confederate,” which will not make its debut any sooner than next year. ‘Confederate’ Poses Test Over Race for ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators and HBO 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Weiss are already in development on their next series for the network, “Confederate.” The next HBO show from the “Game of Thrones” team will start a civil war 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z “The only way we’re gonna change this country is to tell the truth about it. And if it makes you upset that I burned a Confederate flag, you’re part of the problem.” This marijuana-smoking, Confederate flag-burning Senate candidate is having a ball 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z That Robert E. Lee refused to be buried in his Confederate uniform. Lonnae O’Neal: How I felt when the Confederate flag finally came down 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z "The former Confederate capital is riddled with statues of Civil War figures like Stuart, most notably on Monument Avenue," Quartza reported. A Virginia school named after a Confederate general will be renamed Barack Obama Elementary School 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Over time, the Black Panthers learned to tolerate Confederate flags as intransigent signs for rebellion. 1969 vs. 2017: When Black Panthers aligned with Confederate-flag-wielding, working-class whites 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Schultz offers his prints as an alternative to the Confederate monuments that are finally being removed. Review | In the galleries: Photos capture a fleeting moment, leave an indelible impression 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z So he took a tour of the Confederate States of America, the country that might be created if the American South seceded from the American North. Books of The Times: ‘Better Off Without ’Em,’ by Chuck Thompson 2012-08-21T22:05:37Z The breadth of the conspiracy remains fodder for historians — there are those who say it went all the way to the top of the Confederate leadership. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z After Charlottesville, they decided to show their new pieces about Confederate statues instead. A university gallery showed art with Confederate imagery. Then students called to remove it. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Hemmed in during their youth by racial and sexual taboos, and Confederate and Klan ghosts, the Lumpkins kept their secrets close and turned out to the world. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z |
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