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The Author’s Corner with Court Carney

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 17, 2024

Court Carney is Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University. This interview is based on his new book, Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory (LSU Press, 2024). JF: What led you to writeĀ Reckoning […]

Melting Robert E. Lee

John Fea   |  October 27, 2023

The Lee statue at the center of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was just melted. Here is Teo Armus and Hadley Green at The Washington Post: It was a choice to melt down Robert E. Lee. […]

When Congress got rid of a George Washington statue…in 1908

John Fea   |  January 30, 2023

Whatever happened to that statue of George Washington in a toga? Here is Ronald Shafer at The Washington Post: Slowly, some of the U.S. Capitol’s many statues and other artworks honoring enslavers have been slated for removal, most recently a bust of Roger […]

A Christopher Columbus statue will remain in South Philly

John Fea   |  August 18, 2021

A Common Pleas court judge overturned the City of Philadelphia’s decision to remove the statue last year during the racial unrest following the death of George Floyd. Here is The Philadelphia Inquirer: A Philadelphia judge on Tuesday ruled that the […]