By Gerard Fitzgerald Most nights I walk or jog 4-6 miles and my route takes me through the “Academical Village” at UVA. It is a beautiful and yet very conflicted historical space. Built in part by slaves, the design – and especially the neoclassical Rotunda – really can open the mind, . . .
Read MoreSince the tragic events in Charlottesville, many scholars of Civil War memory have been on the front lines of a public discussion about the meaning of white supremacist memorials, and their future in our nation’s civil and collegiate landscapes. You will find below links to historian-authored op-eds and blog posts, listed in . . .
Read More[Author’s note: an earlier version of this post referred to these objects as “Confederate memorials.” I have changed all references to them here to “White Supremacist memorials” or “memorials to White Supremacy” in order to highlight the origin of their creation, and the belief system underlying arguments for their continued existence in . . .
Read MoreI began watching “The Great British Bake Off” during a research trip in New Mexico. I had been hearing about this show for a while but had never taken a look, until three seasons of it appeared on Netflix (under its PBS title, “The Great British Baking Show”). I was instantly charmed . . .
Read MoreBy Chace Howland Boston, Massachusetts. 2017 As the cries and staccato chants from protestors echo in the streets of Boston, Francisco Rodriguez—a father of two American citizens, small business owner, honest tax-payer, and aspiring American—sits nervously by himself in the Suffolk County House of Corrections. He is awaiting deportation to El Salvador, . . .
Read MoreBy Sarah Handley-Cousins When my first child was born, I had just started my second year of a Master’s program in History. Her father was going into his second year of law school. It wasn’t exactly the best time to have a baby. We were broke, working part-time, and going to school. . . .
Read MoreBy Julie A. Mujic, Ph.D. As I fought to recover from the shock and trauma of the 2016 presidential election, I struggled to figure out how to participate in moving the cause forward. I know that as a professor, I am training the next generation but I want to make an impact . . .
Read MoreIn two recent columns for Civil War Times, historian Gary Gallagher repeats many arguments he has made in the past dismissing scholarly work on the Civil War West – a theater that he defines in his August 2017 column as extending from the Appalachians to the Pacific coast, and from North Carolina . . .
Read MoreBy Brian Allen Drake Today the Senate voted to confirm Scott Pruitt as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt is, to put it mildly, no fan of the organization that he now heads. He has filed a number of lawsuits against it in his capacity as Oklahoma’s attorney general and . . .
Read MoreBy David Silkenat Like many historians, Donald Trump’s election has caused me to fret over what, if anything, I can do to stop his destructive agenda and counter his profoundly un-American style of politics. Since November, I’ve lost a fair amount of sleep, spent more time on Twitter than promotes mental health, . . .
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