Virginians Deserve to Have Local Control Over Confederate Monuments

Staff / Truthdig Jan 13, 2020 A bill headed to the Virginia state Legislature would let communities decide what messages they want to convey through their public spaces. Dig deeper ( 5 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 )

White Supremacist in Charlottesville Case Gets Life Sentence

DENISE LAVOIE / The Associated Press Jun 28, 2019 James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into the crowd at a 2017 "Unite the Right" rally, killing one person and injuring over two dozen others. Dig deeper ( 2 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 )

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 )

Politics

American History for Truthdiggers: The Fraudulent Mexican-American War (1846-48)

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Aug 18, 2018 President Polk, and generations of sympathetic historians, told the American people the conflict was justified. But what if it was just blatant imperialism? Dig deeper ( 22 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 )

Take a Knee for Humanity

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Sep 25, 2017 The days of keeping politics out of sports are history. Now is the time for sports figures to use their platforms to lead a global peace movement. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

School Segregation Is Making a Comeback

By Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report Sep 20, 2017 Many states have made it easier for communities to secede from their school district, thus allowing them to segregate again. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )