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Slavery Was About Profit

America’s Ugliest Confederate Statue Is Gone. Racism Isn’t.

Why We Have to Wave the ‘Bloody Shirt’ of Jan. 6

‘The Lost Cause’ Is Back

The Real Story of the ‘Draft Riots’

The Problem With Military Base Names

The Politics of Abolishing Slavery

A 150-Year-Old Lesson in Building National Unity ‘If Not in Spirit, in Fact’

Serving Time Should Not Mean ‘Prison Slavery’

A Monument the Old South Would Like to Ignore

Baffled by John Kelly’s View of the Civil War

Seven Bizarre Notions Trump and His Team Have About America

The Moral Debate Over Statues

Confederate Statues and ‘Our’ History

Discovering the Limitations of Statues

Our House Divided

I Don’t Want to Watch Slavery Fan Fiction

Mitch Landrieu’s Speech on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans

Mitch Landrieu Reminds Us That Eloquence Still Exists

Trump, Andrew Jackson and Ourselves