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‘Ghosts of Mississippi’ haunt Minnesota
It appears that because we all learned the first few sentences of the Declaration of Independence, some of us think the Trump era is an aberration. We are living through a period in which the Confederate separatists are ascendant. The … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Civil War, slavery
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Brown v. Board, Chinese Exclusion Act, civil rights, Civil War, Donald Trump, Eugene Debs, Great Awakening, history, immigration, Immigration Act of 1924, Know-Nothings, Negro Migration of 1879, Palmer Raids, Plessy v. Ferguson, Pullman Strike, sexual predator, Sir Walter Scott, slavery, Supreme Court
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The lies our textbooks told us
A link to The Washington Post version of my post on the Virginia government’s effort to rewrite history. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/slavery-history-virginia-textbook/2020/07/31/d8571eda-d1f0-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html. Published in the Sunday opinion section on August 2, it drew more than 1900 comments. My sampling suggests people were inspired … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War, slavery, Uncategorized
Tagged Adam Wesley Dean, Brown v Board, Civil War, Donald Trump, Dorothy Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward, Francis B. Simkins, J. Lindsey Almond Jr., James J. Kilpatrick, Lewis F. Powell, Massive Resistance, Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones, Voting Rights Act
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Snapshots of a myth
Defenders of statues of Confederate generals and soldiers contend these monuments should not be removed, ever, because they are “history.” Monuments have nothing to do with history. They are snapshots of a narrative. My favorite monument-narrative is the Lincoln Memorial. … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, Uncategorized
Tagged Civil War, Lincoln Second Inaugural Address, Robert E. Lee, slavery
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