Richmond’s Confederate Monuments Were Used to Sell a Segregated Neighborhood
Real-estate developers used the statues on Monument Avenue to draw white buyers to a neighborhood where houses could not be sold “to any person of African descent.”
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Wiki Commons / The Atlantic A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth
The University of North Carolina agreed to pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million—a sum that rivals the endowment of its history department.
Gerry Broome / AP The ‘Loyal Slave’ Photo That Explains the Northam Scandal
The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.
Library of Congress Why I Changed My Mind About Confederate Monuments
Empty pedestals can offer the same lessons about racism and war that the statues do.
Mark Wilson / Getty Images Robert E. Lee Topples From His Pedestal
The city of New Orleans is removing its soaring monument to the Confederate general, who for decades was held up as a model for the nation and a symbol of its reunion.
Jonathan Bachman / Reuters Confederate Monuments Will Come Down in New Orleans
The city council decides to remove four memorials that offered a distorted picture of the city’s past.
Gerald Herbert / AP A Worthy Death: How Civil War Families Made Sense of Suffering
On the anniversary of Antietam, a new PBS documentary captures the grief of 19th century Americans but not their attitude toward redemption.
America's Simple-Minded Obsession With the Confederate Flag
Journalists love to recycle old clichés about the rebel banner. But its days as an official symbol of Southern pride are rapidly coming to an end.
