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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.

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

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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

The Guardian - US

Lincoln called for divided Americans to heed their ‘better angels,’ and politicians have invoked him ever since in crises − but for Abe, it was more than words

Following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, community leaders, clergy and politicians including President Joe Biden have called on Americans to tone down white-hot political rhetoric. Some have invoked the words of one figure in particular: Abraham Lincoln.

The Conversation

Biden to bestow Medal of Honor on two Civil War heroes who helped hijack a train in confederacy

President Joe Biden is awarding the Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry” to a pair of Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove it north for 87 miles as they destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines

The Independent UK

"Seven Questions on Section 3: A Response to Professor Kurt Lash"

A reply to Prof. Kurt Lash's response to the brief by Profs. Akhil Amar & Vikram Amar.

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Nikki Haley, MAGA and the Confederacy

As a former MAGA activist, I know how deep the racial panic and trauma go. Nikki Haley knows that too

Salon

Nikki Haley’s pretend slavery ‘gaffe’ told us what this election is about

Voters will decide the unresolved question of the civil war: do we move backwards, or forwards toward true democracy?

The Guardian - US

Ghosts from Texas’ Past

Dispatch from a haunted—and historically fraught—building in Austin, from Staff Writer Michelle Pitcher in the Texas Observer magazine.

Texas Observer

My Great-Grandfather Was a Racist

Once we take down Confederate statues, Texans must still grapple with monsters in the past.

Texas Observer

When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down

Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, instigated the first broad calls for their removal. The shooter intended to start a race war and had posed with Confederate imagery in photos posted online.

The Conversation

Editorial: Here’s why Gov. DeSantis is wrong. Fort Bragg needed a new name

Braxton Bragg was a slave-owning racist and failed military leader, sometimes described as the worst general of the Civil War. The question should be, why would anyone name a military base after him in the first place? Nevertheless, Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending him.

Tribune News Service

Fort Liberty: US army base Fort Bragg drops Confederate namesake

Change comes as US continues to grapple with prevalence of statues and sites honouring members of Confederacy.

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White Tennessee lawmakers speak out for insurrection in honoring Confederate history

The ghost of the Confederacy hangs heavily over the Tennessee Legislature.

The Guardian - US

The American civil war ended on this day. It should be a national holiday

Rather than celebrate this milestone of multiracial democracy, our leaders conspicuously ignore the occasion

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Confederate President Jefferson Davis’ fate is a cautionary tale for our nation’s Trump quandary

With barricades surrounding the Manhattan criminal courthouse and plainclothes officers ordered to dress in their full uniforms, it’s only human to ponder the wisdom of trying Donald Trump for a nonviolent offense related to buying a porn star’s silence.

Axios

6 Army bases named after Confederate leaders get dates for new names

Nine U.S. Army bases are being redesignated, shedding names honoring the Confederacy.

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The Independent UK

Georgia county refuses to change Confederate street names

States across South have removed monuments to pro-slavery Confederacy

Tribune News Service

Naval Academy renames Maury Hall for President Jimmy Carter in effort to remove Confederate symbols

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The United States Naval Academy renamed its engineering building Friday after Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President and 1946 academy graduate.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Confederate day honors traitors who fought for slavery. Texas Legislature must dump it

Odds are, Thursday’s state holiday came and went without most Texans noticing it.

Tribune News Service

New legislative push begins to end Confederate Heroes Day as an official Texas holiday

AUSTIN, Texas — Two days after the country celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, state Rep. Jarvis Johnson, D-Houston, stood inside the state Capitol and reminded those in attendance that Texas would soon celebrate a holiday honoring the Confederacy.

Axios

The states that celebrate both MLK Day and confederate holidays

Two states celebrate MLK and Robert E. Lee on the same day.

The Conversation

In Danielle Smith's fantasy Alberta, Indigenous struggle is twisted to suit settlers

What do a notorious Ku Klux Klan writer, right-wing libertarianism, the Cherokee Trail of Tears and the “lost cause” of the American Confederacy have to do with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent controversial statements on Indigenous matters?

Tribune News Service

Historic Decatur home of ‘Confederate heroine’ rebranded

Mercedes Ball stood behind a microphone in the back room of an antebellum house in Decatur on last week, getting a little teary-eyed as she spoke.

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