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James Longstreet’s Lessons in Leadership
The Dispatch via AOL· 7 hours agoS. Grant (he attended Grant’s wedding) had no illusions as to what the war was about: slavery. As he recounted in his memoirs, the Emancipation...
Virginia school board restores Confederate names
Virginia Mercury via Yahoo News· 5 days agoProud and satisfied, or sad and embarrassed. However citizens of the commonwealth view Shenandoah County School Board’s recent decision, Virginia appears...
Decoration Day in Syracuse: The evolution of Memorial Day
The Post-Standard· 19 hours agoBlight’s research found several newspaper accounts and a photograph that indicated that on May 1,...
NC group file lawsuit to have Confederate monument with inscription 'faithful slaves' removed
WTVD-TV 11 Raleigh-Durham· 20 hours agoThe monument is a zinc statue resting on a base featuring a bust of Robert E. Lee and the...
Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions
AOL· 7 days agoThe rejected Confederacy-related bill would have removed tax exemptions for real estate and personal property owned by several Confederacy heritage groups, including United Daughters organisations ...
The importance of rejecting 'historical fiction'
The Eagle-Tribune· 2 days agoMy wife and I quite enjoy movies and television series dealing with history, with the understanding that much of it will be dramatized to make it more...
The Shenandoah County School Board’s Terrible History Lesson
Time via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThey affirmed the names a community committee selected in 2021 renaming the school as Mountain View...
12 Historic Facts That'll Blow Your Sense of Time Out of the Water
MediaFeed via AOL· 24 hours agoHave you ever stumbled across a couple of historical facts and related them to one another, only to...
Juneteenth proclaimed state holiday again in Alabama, after bill to make it permanent falters
WBRC Fox 6 Birmingham· 4 days agoAlabama Gov. Kay Ivey has again authorized Juneteenth— the day commemorating the end of slavery in...
Column: Virginia should reject Confederate symbols and honor worthy figures instead
The Virginian-Pilot· 7 days agoThe Shenandoah County School Board’s vote reverting the names of Honey Run Elementary School and...
