When 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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