In August 2016, Mississippi State University stopped flying the Mississippi state flag on its campuses. At the time, the state flag included the Confederate battle flag in its upper corner. The university said it supported changing the flag, but the Mississippi Legislature had chosen not to act, so MSU took the flag down on its
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On August 12th, Donald Trump hosted a rally in Kissimmee, Florida. For almost 20 minutes prior to his speech, a Confederate flag saying “Trump 2016” hung from the railing in Silver Spurs Arena (the venue). There is heated debate about the meaning of this conflicting imagery, as well as its association with racist sentiments, and
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Every Confederate unit treasured its flag, and many soldiers went to remarkable lengths to keep their colors out of enemy hands. One of the most memorable stories comes from the 1st Company of the Richmond Howitzers, where a soldier named John W. Todd kept the battery’s flag safe by wearing it under his uniform. The
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On the Gulf Coast in Biloxi, Mississippi, stands Beauvoir, the last home of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America. It was here that Davis spent his final years and wrote his account of the war. Today Beauvoir is a museum, a presidential library and the resting place of hundreds of
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A recent posting on the site Conservative Daily Post has claimed that Attorney General Loretta Lynch has ordered all Confederate flag tattoos removed; however, this claim has been shown as patently false. In fact, the Attorney General has no ability to force American citizens to engaged in tattoo removal, regardless of the tattoo subject. Loretta
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When the city of Natchitoches, Louisiana, banned the Confederate battle flag from its famous Christmas Festival parade in 2015, the Sons of Confederate Veterans fought back in court. The SCV’s Louisiana Division filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the ban violated its members’ First Amendment rights. City leaders said they wanted to keep a symbol
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Vandals scratched graffiti into a 155-year-old Civil War cannon at Fort Lyon in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Bell County, Kentucky. The cannon had been displayed on the hillside where a gun likely stood during the war. Because of the damage, park officials moved it near the park headquarters and spent time and money
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In 2016, members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy gathered to remember their fallen ancestors in a solemn remembrance ceremony. The day included a series of respectful traditions and ended with the “last drink,” a ritual in which water is poured onto the graves of the soldiers being
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On August 5 and 6, 2016, the village of Carpentersville, Illinois, teamed up with the reenactment group Stanford’s Battery to bring the Civil War to Carpenter Park. Visitors watched reenactments of battles between Union and Confederate soldiers, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days, reenactors gave living history demonstrations of camp life, drills
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Two paintings now on display at the Gettysburg National Military Park offer a vivid depiction of two unique perspectives of the Civil War. “The Armed Slave” depicts a slave reading a book with a cigar in hand and a bayonet-equipped musket close by, ready to spring to action in John Brown’s failed slave uprising of
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