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Karen L. Cox

Civil War and Reconstruction historians: The 14th Amendment should bar Trump from the ballot in Colorado

John Fea   |  January 28, 2024

Here is Martin Pengelly at The Guardian: Twenty-five historians of the civil war and Reconstruction filed a US supreme court brief in support of the attempt by Colorado to remove Donald Trump from the ballot under the 14th amendment, which bars insurrectionists […]

The United Daughters of the Confederacy “seem convinced that anyone who doesn’t like them just doesn’t know who they are.”

John Fea   |  December 13, 2023

Over at The New Republic, Anna Vernarchik has some nice reporting on the current state of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Here is a taste: …the Daughters seem convinced that anyone who doesn’t like them just doesn’t know who […]

What are you reading this summer?

John Fea   |  July 31, 2021

Check out Jennifer Harlan’s New York Times piece on the history of summer reading. Here is a taste: Something about these dog days, more than any other time of year, invites readers to bury themselves in a book — and […]

Episode 85: Reckoning with Confederate Monuments

John Fea   |  June 27, 2021

Historian Karen L. Cox argues that “when it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground.” In this episode, we talk with Cox about the history of Confederate monuments and how the recent racial unrest in the United States […]