Latest posts tagged with #CivilWarMemory on Bluesky
'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...
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...
Even General William Tecumseh Sherman Didn't "Go Full Sherman" on Georgia #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Civil War Buffs Converge on Monterey Next Month: A Conversation With David Woodbury cc: @wpip.bsky.social #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
You can now pre-order my forthcoming biography of Col. Robert Gould Shaw, which drops in September. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Georgia Republicans Abandon Confederate Monuments and the Lost Cause #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Pre-Order "A Glorious Fate" Today + Information about the Book Tour #CivilWarMemory #BookSky cc: @uncpress.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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...
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...
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...
Some thoughts about the 1-year anniversary of Trump's efforts to censor American history on this #NoKingsDay. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Matt Walsh Finds the "Real History" of the Civil War or Why the Archive Is Not a Mirror #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
We Are Not Living Through a Civil War, But We Should Be Living Like It Matters #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Stop Hanging Jefferson Davis in Your Imagination #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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...
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...
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
A Few Thoughts About Why You Should Care About the Study of #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
What Happened to "Don't Erase History"? or What the Confederate Monument Debate Was Always About #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Exploring Lincoln and the "Heroic Legend": A Conversation With Kenneth W. Noe #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
“Loyal Slaves” and Campfire Entertainment in Frank Vizetelly’s Confederate Camp #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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...
Melting Down White Supremacy: What Charlottesville Got Right About Confederate Monuments #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Iran Could Win. The Confederacy Almost Did. The British Definitely Should Have. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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...
"For A Brother's Love": Pvt Owen S. Clark and the 7th New Jersey at Gettysburg #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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...
The Civil War and the Limits of Historical Certainty #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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...
