Update on the institution next door
How five Virginia Republicans asked the federal government to protect VMI from the one thing it has always resisted: accountability.
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Lost Cause
That flag is never the point
The flag is only a visible symptom of the disease that has wracked out society since the end of reconstruction—a disease that is becoming as virulent than ever with power behind it.
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News regarding that other Lexington Institution
The Virginia House of Delegates passed legislation this week that asks ask a question the state should have asked decades ago. That is, should taxpayers continue funding an institution that spent generations celebrating treason in defense of slavery?
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Frederick Douglass still resonates
Frederick Douglass still has something to say for the current moment. Although these words were written after Lee's death, the bombast is all to present again today.
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Trump administration returns traitor's portrait to West Point
The Pentagon is returning a portrait of General Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery.
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4 min read
The Lost Cause lives on
Hegseth's order to restore a confederate memorial (without calling it what it is) perpetuates America's most pernicious historical lie.
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4 min read
The return of a confederate general
A statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike that demonstrators toppled and burned in 2020 will be reinstalled in D.C.
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Neo-confederates fight to preserve lost cause myths at Stone Mountain
Neo-confederates in Georgia are still fighting for the lost cause.
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Southern place names and glorification of the racist past
A recent piece in the Tennessean brought to my attention by a fellow alumni nails it.
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1 min read
Renaming and dog whistles
On June 10, the Army announced that seven Army bases whose names were changed in 2023 because they honored Confederate leaders would revert back to their original names
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