TD Column

If At First You Don’t Secede

Erin Aubry Kaplan / Truthdig Nov 17, 2023 How Republicans are effectuating a reactionary secessionism within our government. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

War, Memory and Gettysburg

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jul 8, 2019 War is, and always has been, about the betrayal of the young by the old, idealists by cynics and soldiers by politicians. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Bigoted Cops Show True Colors in Online Hate Groups

Will Carless and Michael Corey / Reveal News Jun 14, 2019 In public Facebook pages and private groups, police officers trade racist memes, conspiracy theories and Islamophobia. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

West Point Can’t Hide Its Reverence for the Confederacy

Spenser Rapone / Truthdig Oct 24, 2018 Robert E. Lee is practically a fixture on campus. What will it take for the academy to pull down these totems of white supremacy? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Other Enduring Legacy of Jim Crow in Charlottesville, Va.

Annie Waldman / ProPublica, and Erica Green / The New York Times Oct 16, 2018 A new report finds the city has one of the widest education gaps in the country, with white students more likely to be considered gifted. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Lynching the Past

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Oct 1, 2018 Many Southern whites continue to lie to themselves and the world about the Civil War and the antebellum South. These lies perpetuate the evil they seek to hide. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Politics

American History for Truthdiggers: Reconstruction, a Failed Experiment

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Sep 29, 2018 After many thousands of Northerners died in a war aimed in part at freeing the slaves, white America lacked the will to follow through. Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )

American History for Truthdiggers: The Slow, Perilous Shift to Emancipation

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Sep 15, 2018 In 1861-65, Americans waged a war among themselves that remains the bloodiest in U.S. history. It began as a fight to preserve the Union but morphed into an abolitionist war to free 4 million men, women and children from bondage. Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )

Protesters Topple Confederate Statue at N. Carolina Campus

Jonathan Drew / The Associated Press Aug 21, 2018 Civil rights activists have decried the memorial known as "Silent Sam" at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as a symbol of the state's racist heritage. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Right-Wingers in High Places Are Keeping Racist Statues Standing

By Kali Holloway / Independent Media Institute Aug 7, 2018 It's a clash of ideas and values that might be characterized as Charlottesville versus the neo-Confederacy. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Confederacy Endures

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Dec 8, 2017 The inconvenient truth is that the military, especially the Army, has long reflected a political and cultural divide in the United States. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Will Alabama Voters Be Next to Reject ‘Trumpism’?

Harvey Wasserman / Truthdig Nov 8, 2017 Campaigns in New Jersey and Virginia that used immigration and other issues to promote racism lost. The next big test is the race for Jeff Sessions' vacant Senate seat. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )