Confederate Monuments 
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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
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
12-14-2018
North Carolina Board Rejects Chapel Hill’s Controversial Plan for Silent Sam
Silent Sam’s fate remains uncertain.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
12-7-2018
Silent Sam Protesters at Chapel Hill Embrace a New Tactic: a ‘Grade Strike’
Just as the fall semester is set to close, activists say, at least 79 teaching assistants and instructors have joined a rare “grade strike,” pledging to withhold more than 2,000 final grades unless the university meets their conditions.
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SOURCE: Dallas News
12-6-2018
University of Texas to re-erect statue of James Hogg after removing it in 2017 because of Confederate ties
UT President Gregory Fenves made the announcement in a letter to the UT community Thursday, lauding the first Texas-born governor's contributions to the state while acknowledging that he was a child during the Civil War with a "complicated and nuanced legacy."
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SOURCE: Atlantic
12/3/18
Silent Sam Survives
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced its recommendation that the school build a new, $5.3 million building to house the Confederate monument.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
11-29-18 (accessed)
The Costs of the Confederacy
In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.
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