Confederate Monuments

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• SOURCE: The Progressive Pulse
  1/31/20
  

  UNC Historian Cecelia Moore delves into true history of “Silent Sam” in court brief

  This week UNC alumni and donors — and a prominent former university historian — filed briefs in the case insisting the the university will have to face the historical facts and answer those complicated questions if it intends to give the “Silent Sam” monument to the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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• 12/29/19
  

  Confederate Monuments in National Perspective

  by Thomas J. Brown

  Northern monuments established a foundation for the argument that Confederate military service deserves recognition although rendered in a deplorable cause.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/15/19
  

  Lawsuit seeks to overturn Silent Sam settlement at UNC

  A settlement announced abruptly by the University of North Carolina System and its board of governors last month gives the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans all rights to the statue, bans the monument from any of the 14 counties with a UNC institution and creates a $2.5 million independent charitable trust for its preservation. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  12/11/19
  

  Monumental statue of black man defies Confederate monuments

  A massive bronze sculpture of a young black man with dreadlocks astride a muscular horse was permanently installed Tuesday in Virginia’s capital city, not far from one of the country’s most prominent displays of Confederate monuments. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/9/19
  

  A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth

  by David W. Blight, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kevin M. Levin

  The University of North Carolina agreed to pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million—a sum that rivals the endowment of its history department.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9/22/2019
  

  There's a new way to deal with Confederate monuments: Signs that explain their racist history

  “It’s happening in all sorts of places,” said Adam Domby, a history professor at the College of Charleston who is writing a book about Confederate monuments. “Still, it’s clearly in many cases being used as a stopgap because the laws prohibit removing them.”  

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/14/19
  

  There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials in Germany

  by Susan Neiman

  Americans could learn from how drastically German society has moved away from the nadir of its history.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Tar Heel
  6/4/19
  

  History on hold: University pauses the History Task Force work including Silent Sam

  Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said the task force is currently inactive as he game-plans its future. 

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• SOURCE: Post and Courier
  5/17/19
  

  Calhoun statue should not stand in prominent public space

  by Joseph A. Darby

  The only good “compromise” is to take it down and involve those who cherish his memory in choosing a suitable venue for its more appropriate display.

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• SOURCE: The Post and Courier
  5/17/19
  

  ‘It’s art activism’: Charleston artists gather at Calhoun monument, urge its removal

  The Make It Right Campaign helped bring down the Silent Sam Confederate statute in Chapel Hill, N.C., in August, and campaign supporters are eyeing nine more — including Charleston’s Calhoun monument.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/14/19
  

  What to Do With Richmond’s Confederate Statues

  Richmond’s Monument Avenue is lined with Confederate statues, but an exhibition filled with proposals to replace them struggles to find a road forward.

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• 4/21/19
  

  How the New Deal’s Federal Arts Programs Created a New American History

  by Nina Silber

  Without government funding, it would have been almost impossible for this alternative narrative to gain much of a foothold in the public imagination. 

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• 3/17/19
  

  Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue: A Southern Unionist’s Viewpoint

  by Elizabeth Varon

  Elizabeth Van Lew was a Southerner who supported the Union. She--and other Southern Unionists--deepen our understanding of the Civil War and its legacies. 

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• SOURCE: CSU History Department
  3/13/19
  

  WATCH LIVE ONLINE: From Silent Sam to Phnom Pehn: Monuments and Memorials in History and Myth

  Information on a live online history lecture. Watch on March 13th!

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• SOURCE: Dallas News
  2/2/19
  

  As a historian, my instinct was to preserve Confederate monuments, but I changed my mind

  by W. Marvin Dulaney

  After taking a closer look at them and the historical lies that they present and perpetuate, and the reverence that they hold upon the nation's landscape I was convinced that all of them need to come down. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Memphian
  12-20-2018
  

  Some Civil War monuments need to go, others ought to stay, and still others should be built

  by Michael Nelson

  There are Confederate monuments, and there are Confederate monuments.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  12-18-2018
  

  The complex task of writing history

  As more voices weigh in on historical markers, every word is under extra scrutiny

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  12-17-2018
  

  Historians Should End Silence on Silent Sam

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  It’s precisely because the statue embodies white supremacy that it should remain on the campus, in a history center that tells its full and hateful story. And my fellow historians should be the first people to say that.

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  12/17/2018
  

  Nathan B. Forrest’s descendants file suit against Memphis

  by Ed Hooper

  They are seeking the return of the Charles Niehaus statue removed December 2017 from Health Sciences Park in the city.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12/15/2018
  

  VA secretary gave inaccurate answers on pro-Confederate ties during confirmation process

  His comments stand in contradiction to what his spokesman told CNN's KFile team last week