Confederacy

“Fightin’ for my Rats!”: Teapartiers and the Social Theory of William Tecumseh Sherman

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 Guest Post by HK, not by Gary Farber As the seemingly remote Civil War Sesquicentennial gradually floods into our lives over the next four years, we'll find — just as those of us who were around for the Centennial did — that a surprising number of issues from that period which we thought were settled, … Read more

Confederate ‘Heritage’ and the Suppression of Truth

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by Robert R. Mackey (cross-posted from Huffington Post) I opened this morning's Washington Post to find that the governor of Virginia, Robert McDonnell, has determined that the state's tourism demands requires a renewal of "Confederate History Month," which has lain dormant for the past eight years. Ok, I get it. The state needs money and the … Read more