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A Monumental Discussion: Meg Groeling

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Meg Groeling

I have written several versions of an essay on my feelings concerning the issue of the removal of Confederate monuments and statues, and I am never satisfied that I have expressed myself well, or even accurately. My words sometimes fail … Continue reading →

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Telling History vs. Making Art: The ways we remember the war

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Chris Mackowski

Part two in a series “We may say that only at the moment when Lee handed Grant his sword was the Confederacy born,” wrote Robert Penn Warren during the Civil War’s centennial; “or to state matters another way, in the … Continue reading →

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