Archive for Civil War

Opinion

Why was the Confederacy so obsessively devoted to preserving slavery?

As the great historian C. Vann Woodward told us, “Nowhere else did a slave society wage a life-and-death ... Read more

Opinion

How the states’ rights argument was used as a mask to hide the hideousness of white supremacy

States' rights were merely means to an end. As such, they were tactics subject to change. Read more

Opinion

Mississippi honors Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is ridiculous and should stop

There’s no denying Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee are both significant figures in American history. ... Read more

Opinion

Why we can’t forget we were once willing to destroy America over the issue of race

It remains our Great Republic’s Achilles’ heel. With ethno-racial bigotry on the rise once more, to deny all ... Read more

Opinion

Roy Moore's endorsement of American family values before the Civil War disregards the sins of slavery

Hailing the family values of the slavery era while discounting the sins of slavery against those values is ... Read more

Opinion

Joe Rogers: Trying to make sense of Alabama

As a native Mississippian, I don’t get Alabama. Read more

News

New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, Museum of Mississippi History will work together to tell the state's story

The two museums, which will open to the public Dec. 9 in Jackson, share a building and tell ... Read more

Opinion

Confederate monuments paint a false view of history that should be erased

Concern about erasing history by eliminating Confederate monuments is ironic considering most of them tell a false version ... Read more

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