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Loading...The Confederate Statue Controversy Isn’t About Slavery, It’s About Ending America Attacks on Confederate heritage have quickly evolved into attacks on American heritage, which was always the ultimate goal. By John Daniel Davidson SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 Whether the rest of the country likes it or not, what happens in Texas matters a [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...WES FRANKLIN: Don’t attack what you don’t understand Sep 19, 2017 Today I must deviate somewhat from the course of my usual column and take up a subject most close and personal. I don’t intend to go tit-for-tat on this, but I would think rather low of myself if I did not respond. [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Tuesday, 12 September 2017 Robert E. Lee: Answering His Critics Written by Steve Byas Confederate General Patrick Cleburne died many years before the rise of the Taliban and their efforts to destroy the monuments and symbols of their enemies. But Cleburne did accurately predict the Taliban-like efforts to alter the history of [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Nationally, majority favors keeping Confederate monuments, poll finds By ANDREW CAIN Richmond Times-Dispatch Sep 14, 2017 A clear majority of respondents say Confederate monuments should remain in all public spaces, according to a national poll out Thursday morning. The Ipsos poll on racial issues, conducted Aug. 21-Sept. 5 on behalf of Thomson [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Dixie Heritage News - Fri, Sep 15, 2017 AFTER IRMA - A New Era Of Southern Reconstruction Our offices are in Florida. We were right in the path of Irma. We were hit at around 5 am by a Cat 1. We were anticipating much worse. Still, many in our area lost their [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Female Black Army Veteran Is Planting Confederate Flags All Over The South By Isabelle Weeks A Oklahoma woman is taking it upon herself to place Confederate flags on the grave sites of fallen confederate soldiers. She is combating the movement that has taken storm recently to remove confederate monuments and symbols from the [...]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Understanding The War On Monuments By Michael Martin Sep 8, 2017 These words are the most primal reasons that southern, and arguably mainstream American, history is under attack throughout the country. On August 16, 2017, I attended a protest to remove the John C. Calhoun monument in Charleston, South Carolina. While I was [...]
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)Loading...Destroying Confederate Monuments Hurts Us All—and Accomplishes Nothing Eternally vilifying the losers of some past conflict leads to eternal division. Cheryl Benard September 3, 2017 As president of a cultural heritage organization, I feel obligated to weigh in on the current controversy over Confederate monuments. The semi-hysterical push to remove them is, I [...]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Why the Mississippi flag, monuments must remain Ryan S. Walters Sept. 1, 2017 “The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history,” said George Orwell, author of "1984." Today we are seeing this right before our eyes. Whether it is monuments to honor [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Why Banning Civil War Re-Enactments Will Only Increase Ignorance And Prejudice By Anna Mussmann AUGUST 29, 2017 It's a mistake to ignore the complexities of history in the name of social justice. Obscuring the past will not make our country better or more just. If “Gone With the Wind” is too insensitive [...]
