Preserving Southern Heritage

The article highlights the changes being made after the Charleston church massacre. There has been a long standing debate regarding the confederate flag. Now, after the massacre, institutions are now dropping the word ‘confederate’ altogether. They’ve also been removing statues of confederate soldiers located in these institution. The tragedy has caused anything slightly confederate in […]

Once again, the confederate flag is the star of the show. A group called Alamance County Taking Back Alamance County is raising money to line Interstate 40 with them. They want to place a 23 flags- one in every North Carolina county. The members see the flag as a piece of their rich southern heritage,

Chapter One of this book on black Confederates describes the unique dynamic of the master-slave relationship during wartime. Once the setting changed from home to the battlefield and camps, slaves seized opportunities to bend the rules and occasionally escape. This caused their masters to afford them a degree of flexibility not previously allowed. In an

As controversy continues to swirl around the removal of Confederate history, a prominent cafe in Georgia draws attention at the refusal to remove a carving of the old Georgia state flag that bears a Confederate Army emblem. Even after a fire, the restaurant still chose to display it, simply moving the artwork to the back

Blogger and historian Kevin Levin, a former high school history teacher, was recently dismayed to hear a retired Civil War historian suggest that Americans are becoming more ignorant of history compared to past generations. On the contrary, he argues that such a claim ignores history and historical context, such as racial and social disparities, access

The democratic party refused to set up a booth at the Lorain County Fair in Ohio because the board allowed confederate flags to be sold. In contrast, the Ohio State Fair did not allow the confederate flag to be sold due to the controversial issues. While some feel the confederate flag is part of history

Blogger and historian Kevin Levin has added six new books to his Civil War Memory library. The new additions cover a wide variety of topics, including black Civil War regiments, escaped-slave refugee camps, infantry tactics, the state of race, law and public debt in Virginia, and biography. One entry, Joe Gould’s Teeth, is not exclusively

Laws are meant to protect us in more ways than we know, even from own ill fate with luck. According to recent reports from officals at the Gettysburg, tourists found themselves quite unlucky after pleading guilty to taking a few tokens and violating Federal Laws. Steal a rock from Gettysburg and risk the curse Thanks for reading.

Civil War Adventure Camp is a 16-hour overnight camp re-enactment experience. While this is a re-enactment of The Civil War, slavery is not mentioned and The Confederate flag is never flown. The main focus of the camp is military strategy and surviving the brutal serving conditions of serving during the 19th-century. Civil War Adventure Camp

An 86 year old woman was still receiving a pension from the Civil War from her father even though her father had switched sides during the war. He had first been with the confederate army where he fought with a few different regiments. In 1864 he went to fight for the union army and in