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Slate Articles ([info]slate) wrote,
@ 2015-07-02 22:03:00

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The Landscape of Civil War Commemoration

The recent debate over the meaning of the Confederate flag has launched a broader discussion about how we commemorate the Civil War. As Jamelle Bouie wrote in Slate earlier this week, the flag is only the most visible emblem of the Confederate cause. Many of the criticisms that are leveled against the flag—that it is a symbol not of heritage but of oppression—are just as relevant to “the countless Confederate monuments that mark the Southern landscape, from equestrian statues of Robert E. Lee and mountain carvings of Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, to highways named for Jefferson Davis and schools named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, father of the Ku Klux Klan,” Bouie writes.



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