By resurrecting statues toppled in protests during his first term, Donald Trump wants to reverse attempts to ‘erase history’. But history is never that simple.
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How should opposing armies be commemorated on a battlefield? Gettysburg offers an especially interesting example of today’s debates over Confederate monuments.
On the 160th anniversary of the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg, a political scientist finds that residents of formerly Confederate states express greater support for political violence than others.
A Southerner, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas was a racist enslaver before the Civil War. But he fought for the Union because he prioritized his oath to defend the Constitution over state interests.
History shows that political contests over the ideological slant of the court are nothing new.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Gettysburg College
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Professor of History, Arizona State University
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Professor of Geography, Oklahoma State University
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Assistant Professor of U.S. Public History, University of South Florida
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Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato