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Gov. Spanberger signs bill to end the renewal of Robert E. Lee license plates in Virginia RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed Del. Dan Helmer’s bill to end the renewal of commemorative Robert E. Lee license plates in Virginia Wednesday, according to a press…

'Gov. Spanberger signed a bill to end the renewal of commemorative Robert E. Lee license plates in Virginia. A portion of the sale of these plates has previously supported the neo-Confederate organization Sons of Confederate Veterans.' #CivilWarMemory www.wavy.com/news/virgini...

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Even General William Tecumseh Sherman Didn't "Go Full Sherman" on Georgia Comparing President Trump’s unhinged, erratic, and cartoonishly bombastic threats to destroy Iran couldn’t be further removed from the planning and execution of Sherman’s march through Georgia.

Comparing President Trump’s unhinged and erratic threats to destroy Iran couldn’t be further removed from the planning and execution of Sherman’s march through Georgia. #CivilWarMemory kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/even-gener...

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Even General William Tecumseh Sherman Didn't "Go Full Sherman" on Georgia Comparing President Trump’s unhinged, erratic, and cartoonishly bombastic threats to destroy Iran couldn’t be further removed from the planning and execution of Sherman’s march through Georgia.

Even General William Tecumseh Sherman Didn't "Go Full Sherman" on Georgia #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Civil War Buffs Converge on Monterey Next Month: A Conversation With David Woodbury Today I am joined by David Woodbury of Woodbury Historical Tours to discuss what promises to be a wonderful weekend of Civil War talks, which will take place in Monterey, California from May 1-3.

Civil War Buffs Converge on Monterey Next Month: A Conversation With David Woodbury cc: @wpip.bsky.social #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Pre-Order "A Glorious Fate" Today + Information about the Book Tour We are just a few months away from the first biography of Col. Robert Gould Shaw to be published in 25 years.

You can now pre-order my forthcoming biography of Col. Robert Gould Shaw, which drops in September. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Georgia Republicans Abandon Confederate Monuments and the Lost Cause Confederate History Month is off to another bad start for the few people left who still celebrate in some shape or form.

Georgia Republicans Abandon Confederate Monuments and the Lost Cause #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Pre-Order "A Glorious Fate" Today + Information about the Book Tour We are just a few months away from the first biography of Col. Robert Gould Shaw to be published in 25 years.

Pre-Order "A Glorious Fate" Today + Information about the Book Tour #CivilWarMemory #BookSky cc: @uncpress.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Donald Trump Wants You to Forget Why the Fourteenth Amendment and Birthright Citizenship Exists Trump's crackdown on teaching slavery and Reconstruction isn't a culture war distraction. It's the instruction manual for his constitutional agenda.

A reminder as the Supreme Court gets set to hear arguments on the question of birthright citizenship that Trump’s efforts to censor history isn’t a culture war distraction. It’s the instruction manual for his constitutional agenda. #CivilWarMemory kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

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Donald Trump Wants You to Forget Why the Fourteenth Amendment and Birthright Citizenship Exists Trump's crackdown on teaching slavery and Reconstruction isn't a culture war distraction. It's the instruction manual for his constitutional agenda.

Donald Trump’s crackdown on teaching the history of slavery and white supremacy isn’t a culture war distraction. It’s the instruction manual for his constitutional agenda. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Kings Don't Like History They Didn't Write The movement in the streets today and the executive order turning one year old are fighting over the same thing: Who gets to tell America's story.

A nation confident in its values does not need to curate what its people are allowed to learn.

My thoughts about the anniversary of Trump's Executive Order calling for "Restoring Truth and Sanity To American History." #CivilWarMemory kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/kings-dont...

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Kings Don't Like History They Didn't Write The movement in the streets today and the executive order turning one year old are fighting over the same thing: Who gets to tell America's story.

Some thoughts about the 1-year anniversary of Trump's efforts to censor American history on this #NoKingsDay. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Matt Walsh Finds the "Real History" of the Civil War or Why the Archive Is Not a Mirror Why thinking you can read the past without interpretation is itself a historical blind spot

Matt Walsh Finds the "Real History" of the Civil War or Why the Archive Is Not a Mirror #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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We Are Not Living Through a Civil War, But We Should Be Living Like It Matters On contingency, civic seriousness, and the strange comfort of pretending the future is already written.

We Are Not Living Through a Civil War, But We Should Be Living Like It Matters #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Stop Hanging Jefferson Davis in Your Imagination The fantasy of a harsher Reconstruction may be emotionally satisfying, but it is historically useless to understanding the present.

Stop Hanging Jefferson Davis in Your Imagination #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Robert E. Lee Was Already a Legend Before Appomattox Stop Blaming the Lost Cause for a Myth That Was Built During the War

I get wanting to dismiss Matt Walsh and his idolizing of Robert E. Lee, but so often the attempt results in its own historical distortions. Here is a perfect example of politics and emotion driving claims about the past. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Robert E. Lee Was Already a Legend Before Appomattox Stop Blaming the Lost Cause for a Myth That Was Built During the War

Conservatives love to celebrate Robert E. Lee, but in the attempt to respond and dismiss Lee, the liberal response often results in its own historical distortions. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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To understand how Americans have remembered the war is to understand something essential about the ongoing struggle to define what America is, who belongs to it, and what it owes to those it has wronged. #CivilWarMemory

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A Few Thoughts About Why You Should Care About the Study of Civil War Memory One of my friends during my eleven years living in Charlottesville, Virginia was the historian William Freehling.

A Few Thoughts About Why You Should Care About the Study of #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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What Happened to "Don't Erase History"? or What the Confederate Monument Debate Was Always About Tracking the gap between conservative rhetoric on monuments and their silence on Cesar Chavez

What Happened to "Don't Erase History"? or What the Confederate Monument Debate Was Always About #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Exploring Lincoln and the "Heroic Legend": A Conversation With Kenneth W. Noe Thanks to my friend and fellow historian, Ken Noe, for taking the time to talk with me about his new book, Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend: Reconsidering Lincoln as Commander in Chief.

Exploring Lincoln and the "Heroic Legend": A Conversation With Kenneth W. Noe #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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“Loyal Slaves” and Campfire Entertainment in Frank Vizetelly’s Confederate Camp Race, Representation, the Construction of Loyalty in Confederate Visual Culture and its surprising international implications.

“Loyal Slaves” and Campfire Entertainment in Frank Vizetelly’s Confederate Camp #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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How Schools Named for César Chávez Should Navigate a Naming Crisis The challenge is not unlike the debate that has taken place in countless schools named in honor of Confederate leaders.

I've spent a good deal of time over the past ten years helping school communities work to change names that honor Confederate leaders. Here are some thoughts about how schools named in honor of Cesar Chavez might move forward. #CivilWarMemory #EduSky #sschat open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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What We Owe the Past On the importance of judging history with the same charity we hope the future will extend to us.

What We Owe the Past #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Melting Down White Supremacy: What Charlottesville Got Right About Confederate Monuments Charlottesville's monument melting shows us that democracy means more than voting. It means transforming power itself

Melting Down White Supremacy: What Charlottesville Got Right About Confederate Monuments #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Iran Could Win. The Confederacy Almost Did. The British Definitely Should Have. Why military superiority has never been enough.

Iran Could Win. The Confederacy Almost Did. The British Definitely Should Have. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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"For A Brother's Love": Pvt Owen S. Clark and the 7th New Jersey at Gettysburg During my recent visit home to South Jersey, I stumbled across one of many cemeteries in Galloway Township.

Lincoln was right. No words can fully consecrate what men like Owen S. Clark consecrated with their lives. But we can try to remember them. We can speak their names and refuse to let them vanish entirely into the silence of the past. #CivilWarMemory kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/for-a-brot...

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"For A Brother's Love": Pvt Owen S. Clark and the 7th New Jersey at Gettysburg During my recent visit home to South Jersey, I stumbled across one of many cemeteries in Galloway Township.

"For A Brother's Love": Pvt Owen S. Clark and the 7th New Jersey at Gettysburg #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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The Confederate General Who Tried to Free Slaves to Save Slavery How Robert E. Lee's last desperate gambit exposed the Confederacy's fatal contradiction.

A reflection on the anniversary of the Confederacy's decision to enlist Black soldiers in the army #OTD in 1865. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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The Civil War and the Limits of Historical Certainty Some thoughts about the importance of contingency in history and the humility necessary to acknowledge it.

The Civil War and the Limits of Historical Certainty #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Beavers, Gettysburg, and Civil War Memory: A Conversation with Barbara Gannon It’s always a pleasure talking with my friend and fellow historian Barbara Gannon. Barbara teaches history at the University of Central Florida and specializes in the Civil War era and military histor...

I also talked with historian Barbara Gannon, who offered a different perspective on what should happen to the beavers on the Gettysburg battlefield. #NationalParks #CivilWarMemory kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/beavers-ge...

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