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Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument

The sweeping exhibition Monuments, which features 19 contemporary artists, opens in LA on 23 October

The Guardian - US

Trump touts slavery icon as Vance whitewashes racist texts. These guys aren’t saying quiet part out loud — they’re shouting

NEWS ANALYSIS: No one asked the president about Robert E. Lee, it just rolled off his tongue, and his No. 2 used whataboutism to take a pass on denouncing blatantly racist statements. It’s not a good look for the Republican Party, writes John Bowden

The Independent UK

Waving his flag all over the place: Trump adds ‘Arc de Trump’ to presidential renovations

In addition to a new ballroom, flagpoles, gilding the Oval Office and paving over the Rose Garden, the US president proposes an arch

The Guardian - US

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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

Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for the actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards

The Independent UK

Trump cheers West Point for ‘smartly’ cancelling awards ceremony for ‘WOKE’ Tom Hanks

‘Hopefully the Academy Awards, and other Fake Award Shows, will review their Standards and Practices in the name of Fairness and Justice,’ the president exclaimed on social media.

The Independent UK

West Point alumni group cancel ceremony to honour Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’

Actor was expected to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award at a September 25 ceremony

The Independent UK

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Trump wants to rewrite American history. Maybe he should learn it first

The president seeking to overhaul the Smithsonian has a dark vision of the past that he’s using to advance his agenda

The Guardian - US

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.

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Pentagon Will Reinstall Portrait Of Confederate General Robert E. Lee With Slave in Background After Years in Storage

The Pentagon has restored a 20-foot portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee to the West Point library, three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed.

Latin Times

Pentagon is reinstalling portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that includes a slave

An Army spokesperson said that under the revived instructions of President Trump, they were not prepared to ‘erase’ history

The Independent UK

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

Midland school board votes to restore school name honoring Confederate general

Five years ago, during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, the board voted to change the high school to Legacy High. On Tuesday, it reversed course.

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The Texas Tribune

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 Independent UK

Hegseth says renaming military bases after Civil War soldiers who fought for slavery is ‘important for morale’

Defense secretary claims veterans and active-duty troops are thankful the previous names are returning to bases formerly named after confederate generals and officers

The Guardian - US

‘Hard for me to understand’: grappling with the Charlottesville tragedy eight years on

Author, and Charlottesville native, Deborah Baker has revisited the devastating events of 2017 and examined how the events speak to a difficult past

The Independent UK

North Carolina judge challenging outcome of race wore Confederate uniform in college photo

A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when he was a member of a college fraternity that glorified the pre-Civil War South

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The Guardian - US

The spirit of the Confederacy is alive and well in Trump’s America

Sympathy for yesteryear is gaining traction among Republican elites, and Trump’s relations with white supremacy is too close

The Conversation

I’m a scholar of white supremacy who’s visiting all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed in recent years − here’s why Richmond gets it right

In a symbolic rebuke of the American South’s racist history, an old Confederate monument now has a meaningful new life, four years after it was toppled in Virginia.

The Texas Tribune

How some Texas parents and historians say a new state curriculum glosses over slavery and racism

Education officials say the materials were designed to be age appropriate but critics argue they repeatedly omit key context and oversimplify history.

The Independent UK

Diners at restaurant where Lincoln assassination was planned think US is as divided now as the Civil War

Mary Surratt, the building’s owner, would become the first woman executed by the US federal government

Salon

Teacher beats back DeSantis' war on woke

"I feel vindicated but I also feel sad," Amy Donofrio said after a judge ruled her BLM banner broke no school rules

The Guardian - US

Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions

Republican Glenn Youngkin also vetoed bills related to maintaining access to contraception, saying they were ‘not ready’

The Guardian - US

Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools

Schools changed their names after 2020 George Floyd protests, but will now revert to old names celebrating slave-state leaders

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