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The Week in Confederate Heritage
We begin this week with this article from James City, Virginia. “The mid-19th century James City County home of former William & Mary President and Confederate army Col. Benjamin Stoddert Ewell has been destroyed. Ewell Hall, owned by Williamsburg Memorial Park, was torn down last month ‘after we exhausted pretty much all opportunities to save […]
The Week in Confederate Heritage
We begin with this article from Florida about a social studies teacher who himself needs remedial education. “A Florida middle school teacher who had his class watch a self-made, pro-Confederacy video for Confederate History Month has filed a complaint against his school district for launching an investigation into his questionable teaching practices. Collier County Public […]
The Week in Confederate Heritage
We begin our weekly look at the national retreat of confederate heritage with this article from Texas. “One of the U.S. military’s largest bases has been renamed after the Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. Fort Hood, located about 70 miles north of Austin, Texas, was redesignated on Tuesday as Fort Cavazos in honor of the […]
‘Why? I Mean, We Won’: The Century-Long Battle Over This Confederate Flag
This April, 2023 story deals with the captured 28th Virginia battle flag in Minnesota’s possession. “Nearly 160 years later, a fight remains between the North and the South and it’s not over state’s rights or slavery. It’s over a flag. ‘This is a story about one of those intense little ghost battles that continue to spin […]
The Week in Confederate Heritage
This article from Berryville, Virginia begins our weekly look at the nationwide retreat of confederate heritage. “The Virginia Court of Appeals has upheld a Clarke County Circuit Court judge’s decision to award possession of a Confederate statue in Berryville to the county government. In an opinion published Tuesday by a three-judge panel in Fredericksburg, the […]
The Media and Politicians Get Apoplectic Again
You’ve probably seen some of the several “sky is falling” articles about the lower scores in the National Assessment of Education Progress regarding 8th graders’ history knowledge. As long-time readers of this blog may recall, the various news media as well as politicians have been reporting on the sad state of historical knowledge among America’s […]
The Week in Confederate Heritage
We begin this week’s look at the nationwide retreat of confederate heritage with this essay. “It stands to reason that Woodrow Wilson would be the president to bring us Army bases named for traitors who waged war on this country with the goal of preserving slavery. He took office in 1913 with a team of […]
The Week in Confederate Heritage
We begin with this story from Virginia. “A Civil War reenactor has pleaded guilty to charges that he planted a pipe bomb at a Virginia battlefield in 2017 and wrote letters falsely claiming that antifa protesters were to blame. Prosecutors on Tuesday announced the guilty plea from Gerald Leonard Drake, 63, of Winchester. Drake admitted during […]
The Week in Confederate Heritage
This week, we begin with this article about the US Navy renaming one of its Aegis guided missile cruisers. “The U.S. Navy has finally shed the last two ship names that honored the Confederacy — and renamed one of them in honor of a man whose life story reads like an action movie hero. The […]
The Week in Confederate Heritage
We begin with this article out of Mississippi regarding the white supremacist honoring of people who committed treason against the United States for the purpose of protecting slavery and white supremacy. “For the fourth year in a row, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a proclamation declaring April as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping […]
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