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Virginia's Unconstitutional Effort to Strip Property Tax Exemptions From Pro-Confederate Groups

The groups and their ideology are awful. But Virginia's policy violates the First Amendment. Allowing it to stand could set a dangerous precedent.

Reason

Virginia strips tax breaks for organizations connected to the Confederacy

The United Daughters of the Confederacy – responsible for proliferation of Confederate statues across the US – will now have to pay property taxes

The Guardian - US

Trump welcomes Columbus to the White House – and reignites America’s history wars

Christopher Columbus is back. At least, a statue of him is back, reinstalled by US President Donald Trump on the White House grounds in late March – part of the president’s stated mission to cancel “cancel culture”.

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Bovino portrayed as Confederate general in 2018 email exchange

Bovino allegedly denied promoting two border patrol officials because of their race, according to several reports

The Guardian - US

Trump threatened to veto NDAA over base names, Rep. Strickland says - Roll Call

The Trump administration threatened to veto the defense bill over policy differences on military base names, Rep. Marilyn Strickland says.

Roll Call

Trump ‘OK’ with DC statue honoring Civil War leader who fought for slavery: ‘Lot of people in this room’ agree

Trump’s administration has pushed for restoring multiple memorials to the pro-slavery leader

The Independent UK

Pastor linked to Lutheran church group also linked to neo-Confederate movement

John Eidsmoe, associated with Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, has history with public defenses of Confederacy

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West Point restores Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's portrait

A painting of Gen. Robert E

The Independent UK

‘We honor our history,’ say the West Point officials restoring a painting that glorifies an enslaver

Trump wants to honor a leader of the Confederacy.

We Got This Covered

Pentagon to restore Confederate general portrait at West Point library

Controversial painting of Robert E Lee and enslaved man taken down after 2020 law to remove Confederate tributes

The Guardian - US

Trump’s attacks on the ‘Blacksonian’ have a history in a century-old myth

The United Daughters of the Confederacy set out to make slavery respectable again by promoting ‘the lost cause’

The Guardian - US

Ex-pastor at Pete Hegseth’s church calls for public executions and says Bible backs Ice raids

Podcast host Joshua Haymes voices range of extreme views and says liberalism a greater threat to US than neo-Nazism

The Guardian - US

Five years after shedding Confederate moniker, a West Texas high school may be Lee High again

The Midland school district rebranded Robert E. Lee High as Legacy High in 2020, part of a nationwide trend to distance public places from the Confederacy.

The Texas Tribune

Confederate monument being restored on Hegseth’s anti-woke quest will cost $10M, military says

Retired Army Brigadier General Ty Seidule called The Reconciliation Monument ‘problematic from top to bottom’

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The Guardian - US

A new reading of Sherman’s march shows how enslaved people sought to free themselves

A recent book focuses on the experience of those who used the event as an emancipatory movement

The Independent UK

Restoration of torn-down Confederate monument will cost $10 million over 2 years, military says

A U.S. Army official says restoring a memorial to the Confederacy that was removed from Arlington National Cemetery at the recommendation of Congress will cost roughly $10 million total

The Independent UK

Hegseth announces return of Confederate statue that whitewashes slavery to Arlington Cemetery: ‘We honor it’

‘It never should have been taken down by woke lemmings. Unlike the Left, we don’t believe in erasing American history,’ Defense Secretary says

The Independent UK

Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slavery and segregation

The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group has filed a lawsuit against a state park over an exhibit on slavery, segregation, and white supremacy

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JD Vance Ridiculed For Defending Confederate Soldiers: 'Weird Stance For The Vice President'

Vice President JD Vance defended Confederate soldiers in a recent podcast appearance, a move social media users called a "weird hill to die on."

Salon

Toxic nostalgia: MAGA's Russia syndrome

Russia's Kremlin loyalists and America's MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they're both enslaved by the past

Capital & Main

‘We’ve Never Seen This in American History Before’

Historian Sean Wilentz warns Trump’s second term could mark an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of a reactionary movement.

The Conversation

How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory

There were no antebellum hoop skirts at the site of Brazil’s annual “Festa Confederada,” or Confederate Festival, in 2024. Flag poles that once flew the Brazilian flag alongside the red, white and blue rebel banner of the American Confederacy stood barren.

The Conversation

‘Yellowstone’ highlights Montana’s long-forgotten connection to the Confederacy

The Conversation

Conscription laws passed during the US civil war offered exemptions – are there lessons for Ukraine today?

Ukraine has been compelled to expand conscription in recent months as it continues to battle against an enemy with greater manpower.

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Statue of John Lewis unveiled in Georgia to honor late civil rights leader

Statue of congressman, who died in 2020 of cancer, replaces obelisk erected in 1908 celebrating the Confederacy

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