Confederate Monuments

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The Lasting Legacy of Confederate Monuments Equal Justice Initiative

Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy -Southern Poverty Law Center.

Constitution of the Confederate States of America

The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States

The Cornerstone Speech
"Its [the Confederacy's] corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition."

Sins of the Fathers The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many Southern whites still believe otherwise? -Washington Post

The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory -Adam Domby

The Myth of the Lost Cause -Gallagher, Nolan

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory -Blight, Harvard University Press

Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture -Karen Cox

Romanticizing Confederate cause has no place onscreen -LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

What This Cruel War Was Over The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it -Coates, The Atlantic

The Lost Cause -Encyclopedia Virginia. Janney, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War -Gallagher, University of North Carolina Press.

The Birth of a Nation: Propaganda as History -Franklin, The Massachusetts Review

Why Calling Slaves 'Workers' Is More Than An Editing Error -Npr.org

Texas Mother Teaches Textbook Company a Lesson on Accuracy -Fernandez, New York Times

When Bigotry Paraded Through the Streets -Rothman, The Atlantic.

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