TD Column
TD Column
War, Memory and Gettysburg
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.
Bigoted Cops Show True Colors in Online Hate Groups
Jun 14, 2019 In public Facebook pages and private groups, police officers trade racist memes, conspiracy theories and Islamophobia.
West Point Can’t Hide Its Reverence for the Confederacy
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?
The Other Enduring Legacy of Jim Crow in Charlottesville, Va.
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.
Lynching the Past
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.
Politics
American History for Truthdiggers: Reconstruction, a Failed Experiment
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.
American History for Truthdiggers: The Slow, Perilous Shift to Emancipation
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.
Protesters Topple Confederate Statue at N. Carolina Campus
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.
How Right-Wingers in High Places Are Keeping Racist Statues Standing
Aug 7, 2018 It's a clash of ideas and values that might be characterized as Charlottesville versus the neo-Confederacy.
The Confederacy Endures
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.
