You're Probably Wrong About Confederate Monuments

Misinformation abounds about the removal of Confederate monuments in across the Southern United States. In this video, I discuss the common misconceptions about this controversial issue. Join me in making treason odious.

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~REFERENCES~

[1] “Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy” (2019). Southern Poverty Law Center


[2] “City of New Orleans Begins Removal of Divisive Confederate Statues Commemorating ‘Cult of the Lost Cause’” (2017). Nola.gov

[3] Andrew Caplan: “Confederate Statue Removed From Downtown Gainesville” (2017). The Gainesville Sun

[4] Alex Horton: "Tennessee Lawmakers Punish Memphis for Removing Statue of Confederate and KKK Leader” (2018). The Washington Post

[5] “Kentucky City Removes 2 Confederate Statues from Courthouse" (2017). CBS News

[6] Lisa O’Donnell: “Remove Confederate Statue or Face Possible Legal Action, Winston-Salem tells United Daughters of the Confederacy” (2019). Greensboro.com

[7] Tom Foreman Jr. and Jonathan Drew: “Confederate Statue Removed from Winston-Salem Courthouse” (2019). Salisbury Post

[8] Jon Greenburg: "Kemp Decries Calls by ‘Radical Left’ to Remove Washington, Jefferson Statues. We Looked For Examples” (2017). Politifact

[9] David A. Graham: “Where Will the Removal of Confederate Monuments Stop?” (2017). The Atlantic

[10] Matt Atkinson: “Jubal Early and the Molding of Confederate Memory” (2016). GettysburgNPS

[11] Caroline E. Janney: “The Lost Cause” (2009). Encyclopedia Virginia

[12] Brad Epperly, Christopher Witko, Ryan Strickler, Paul White: “Rule by Violence, Rule by Law: Lynching, Jim Crow, and the Continuing Evolution of Voter Suppression in the U.S.” (2019). Cambridge University Press

[13] "’Their Own Hotheadedness’: Senator Benjamin R. ‘Pitchfork Ben’ Tillman Justifies Violence Against Southern Blacks.” History Matters

[14] Annie Cooper Burton: The Ku Klux Klan (1916). Warren T. Potter

[15] Codie Eash: "The Pennsylvania Veterans who Opposed Gettysburg’s First Confederate Monument” (2019). Pennsylvania in the Civil War

[16] Noah Caldwell, Audie Cornish: “Where Do Confederate Monuments Go After They Come Down?” (2018). NPR News

[17] “Neo-N@zi Provocations on the Rise in Germany” (2020). Courthouse News Service

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