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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.

The Conversation · Dec 19, 2024

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

The popular “Yellowstone” TV series, set and filmed in Montana, taps into a lesser-known chapter of the state’s history: its settlement by Confederates and ex-Confederates during and after the Civil War.

The Conversation · Nov 7, 2024

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.

The Conversation · Aug 29, 2024

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 · Jan 15, 2024

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 · Jan 11, 2024

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 · Oct 5, 2023

My Great-Grandfather Was a Racist

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

Texas Observer · Sep 4, 2023

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 · Aug 8, 2023

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 · Jun 14, 2023

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.

Al Jazeera · Jun 2, 2023