How One City Took Down Its Confederate Monuments: A Stealth History Lesson
After Charlottesville, Baltimore's removal of Confederate statues in the dead of night was the city's latest attempt to make peace with the ghosts of the Civil War. Other cities may be taking note. The...
View ArticleConfederate Monuments’ Phony History
The irony of the debate over removal of Confederate monuments is that it supposes a removal of history when the monuments themselves were intended to re-write it. The post Confederate Monuments’ Phony...
View ArticleProposal To Replace Statue of Confederate Gen. Smith With One of Mary McLeod...
State Sen. Perry Thurston proposed a resolution to have Bethune replace Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith as one of Florida's two representatives in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. The post...
View ArticleKKK Confirms: We’re Recruiting in Flagler
In an interview with FlaglerLive, KKK Imperial Wizard Cole Thornton says the drive will continue across the state. Dan Warren recommends vigilance. The post KKK Confirms: We’re Recruiting in Flagler...
View ArticleThe Live Wire, Sept. 28: War Crimes, Pill Mills, Confederates and God
US soldiers as murderers, Florida pill mills poisoning the South, Bertrand Russell on God, tales from Fatland, folding up the Confederacy, and more. The post The Live Wire, Sept. 28: War Crimes, Pill...
View ArticlePaula Deen’s South Begs a Question: What’s Wrong With Us?
The issue is not only whether Paula Deen has sincerely evolved in her attitudes, but also whether the country has, writes Steve Robinson, who is willing to cut Deen more slack here than he would give...
View ArticleWhen Southern Heritage Is a Lost Cause
As surely as their chosen symbols profess a sentimental attachment to an era of racist brutality, Confederate nostalgists insist that what they really pine for is the Old South of country roads, shady...
View ArticleBan on Confederates in Florida Veterans’ Hall of Fame Raises Gray Hackles
The Civil War became an unlikely point of contention at the last Florida Cabinet meeting as Agriculture Commissioner Putnam criticized a decision not to include Confederate soldiers in the hall of...
View ArticleAt Olustee State Park, Confederacy Wins One As Plan For Union Monument Is In...
Florida's Olustee Battlefield State Park, site of the Civil War's largest battle in the state, was to have a Union monument until opponents revived an old conflict. The post At Olustee State Park,...
View ArticleConfederate General Is Out, Henry Flagler May Be In as Florida Lawmaker Seeks...
The bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith has stood in the U.S. Capitol since 1922. It would be replaced by the likes of Henry Flagler or Walt Disney under a bill filed Tuesday by Rep....
View ArticleThere’s Always Room For a Confederate Statue in a Lake County Government...
A bronze statue of the Confederate general will be relocated from the National Statuary Hall in Washington to a museum housed in the same building as the Lake County Sheriff’s Office The post There’s...
View ArticleFSU Will Move Statue of Slaveholder and Seek to Scrub Segregationist’s Name...
The statue of Francis Eppes, a grandson of Thomas Jefferson and a former mayor of Tallahassee, has been up only since 2002. FSU President John Thrasher will seek to have the name of segregationist B.K....
View ArticleProposal Would End Florida’s Confederate Holidays and Protections for...
A proposal is back in the Florida Senate that would end legal holidays marking the birthdays of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, along with Confederate Memorial...
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