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The Author’s Corner with Marvin Chiles

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 6, 2023

Marvin Chiles is Assistant Professor of African American History at Old Dominion University. This interview is based on his new book, The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond (University of Virginia Press, 2023). JF: […]

The A.P. Hill statue near Richmond comes down

John Fea   |  December 14, 2022

The statue of the Confederate general was Richmond’s last city-owned Confederate statue. Here is a taste of Paul Waldman’s piece at The Washington Post: The Lost Cause is dying with a whimper. For that, thank the committed activists who made […]

Another time capsule is found in Richmond’s Robert E. Lee monument

John Fea   |  December 28, 2021

They have been looking for this thing since September. Here is ABC News: After a time capsule found last week proved to be a letdown, another one has been found in the pedestal of a now-removed Robert E. Lee state […]

Richmond’s Robert E. Lee monument will come down tomorrow

John Fea   |  September 7, 2021

Here is the Associated Press: A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, will be taken down on Wednesday as a symbol of racial injustice, more than 130 years after it was erected in tribute to […]