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“To Perpetuate a False Image of History”: Perspectives on Confederate Commemoration from the Black Press

"Forging Heavier Chains with Which to Be Bound": The Lee Statue on Monument Avenue

"The First Seeds of Treason Towards Another Civil War": Criticism of Confederate Flags

"Show the White Supremacist that We Will Not Stand for It": The Winston-Salem Monument to Confederate Dead

Black Journalists Note the Klan's Hatred for Other Groups

"Fear Is What This Story Is All About": Confederate Flag Controversy at Ole Miss

"Cold Marble Can Proclaim Its Cause": The Alexander Stephens Statue in the Capitol

No Churches for Judas and Pilate: Richard B. Martin on the 1960 Jefferson Davis Postage Stamp Proposal

"Bigoted Bed-Sheeters": Fiery Crosses Symbolize a Revival on Stone Mountain

"The Weakness of Human Judgement": The Jefferson Davis Monument in Kentucky

"An Insult to the South": DJ Feud of 1956

"I Don't Think the Confederate Heroes Have a Sacred Place on Monument Avenue": The Arthur Ashe Statue in Richmond

"We Are Pushing Forward to a Larger Freedom": The Harper's Ferry Monument to "Loyal Negroes"

"The Foremost Apostle of Slavery": J. A. Rogers on the 1937 Lee Stamps

"Never Underestimate the Power of Symbols": The Jefferson Davis Highway in Washington State

"Change the Symbol That Churns up Hate": The Georgia State Flag Controversy

"The Arch Traitor": Jefferson Davis at the Capitol

"Hitlerian Disease": Taking the Fight against the Klan to Stone Mountain

"Fear the Greeks, Though Bearing Gifts": Efforts to Build a National "Mammy" Monument in D.C.

"Suppose You Really Knew Your Story?": Roscoe Simmons, Evocative Critic of Confederate Commemoration

Grasping at Will-o'-Wisps at West Point

Black Journalists Uninterested in the Davis Monument on Monument Avenue

"A Symbol of Injustice": Removing the Confederate Flag at the South Carolina Statehouse

"Glorifying Our Worst Enemies": The Lee Statue in the Capitol

Black Journalists Challenge Klan Claims to Be a "Local" Organization

"The Memory of the Damnable Days of the Past": Black Journalists in Seattle Attack Confederate Commemoration from the Pacific Northwest

The Rise and Fall of "Silent Sam"

"And Other Tunes Dear to the Hearts of Racists": Playing "Dixie"

"The South Believes in Human Slavery": Black Journalists Criticize Stone Mountain Confederate Monument

"Nothing Quite So Dead as an Idea Tried and Found Wanting": Criticisms of Confederate Commemoration from the Twin Cities

"The Same Degree of Patriotism and Fierceness as One Protests and Rejects the Nazi Swastika": Auto-Tags in Spotsylvania County, Virginia

Stone Mountain and the Resurrection of the Klan

Early Commentary on Confederate Commemoration

"Push America Back from the Brink of Senseless Tribalism": The NAACP Response to the Confederate Battle Flag at the South Carolina Capitol

Comparing Malcolm X and Confederate Battle Flags: Carver High School Controversy

“A Table of Brass Will Last”: Complex Views from the Colorado Statesman

“Crush that Nostalgic Yearning for the Lost White Cause”: The Campaign to Revise the Mississippi State Flag

“KEEP YOUR EYES ON THOSE CONFEDERATE FLAGS!”: The Baltimore Afro-American as Critic of Confederate Commemoration

“Equivalent to Flying the Flag of Adolf Hitler Over Israel”: The Confederate Battle Flag Atop Alabama’s Capitol

“Roost Right on the Ankles of Congress”: The Dallas Express and Confederate Commemoration

“Symbols of Racial Inequality”: The Carolina Times Covers Flag Controversies in the Late Civil Rights Era

“Safe in the Custody of His Late Master”: The New Jersey Sentinel Connects White Supremacism and Confederate Commemoration

“The Cause of a Defeated Man”: Relics and Shrines of Jefferson Davis

“The Women Keep Alive Our Differences”: The Omaha Guide’s View of Southern Ladies’ Memorial Associations