A nation confident in its values does not need to curate what its people are allowed to learn.
My thoughts about the anniversary of Trump's Executive Order calling for "Restoring Truth and Sanity To American History." #CivilWarMemory kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/kings-dont...
Some thoughts about the 1-year anniversary of Trump's efforts to censor American history on this #NoKingsDay. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Matt Walsh Finds the "Real History" of the Civil War or Why the Archive Is Not a Mirror #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
We Are Not Living Through a Civil War, But We Should Be Living Like It Matters #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Stop Hanging Jefferson Davis in Your Imagination #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
I get wanting to dismiss Matt Walsh and his idolizing of Robert E. Lee, but so often the attempt results in its own historical distortions. Here is a perfect example of politics and emotion driving claims about the past. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Conservatives love to celebrate Robert E. Lee, but in the attempt to respond and dismiss Lee, the liberal response often results in its own historical distortions. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
To understand how Americans have remembered the war is to understand something essential about the ongoing struggle to define what America is, who belongs to it, and what it owes to those it has wronged. #CivilWarMemory
A Few Thoughts About Why You Should Care About the Study of #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
What Happened to "Don't Erase History"? or What the Confederate Monument Debate Was Always About #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Exploring Lincoln and the "Heroic Legend": A Conversation With Kenneth W. Noe #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
“Loyal Slaves” and Campfire Entertainment in Frank Vizetelly’s Confederate Camp #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
I've spent a good deal of time over the past ten years helping school communities work to change names that honor Confederate leaders. Here are some thoughts about how schools named in honor of Cesar Chavez might move forward. #CivilWarMemory #EduSky #sschat open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Melting Down White Supremacy: What Charlottesville Got Right About Confederate Monuments #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Iran Could Win. The Confederacy Almost Did. The British Definitely Should Have. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Lincoln was right. No words can fully consecrate what men like Owen S. Clark consecrated with their lives. But we can try to remember them. We can speak their names and refuse to let them vanish entirely into the silence of the past. #CivilWarMemory kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/for-a-brot...
"For A Brother's Love": Pvt Owen S. Clark and the 7th New Jersey at Gettysburg #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
A reflection on the anniversary of the Confederacy's decision to enlist Black soldiers in the army #OTD in 1865. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The Civil War and the Limits of Historical Certainty #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
I also talked with historian Barbara Gannon, who offered a different perspective on what should happen to the beavers on the Gettysburg battlefield. #NationalParks #CivilWarMemory kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/beavers-ge...
As you might imagine, this is a very controversial topic within the Gettysburg/Civil War community. Here is an interview I did with historian Jen Murray, who once worked at Gettysburg with the National Park Service. #NationalParks #CivilWarMemory kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/gettysburg...
If No One Sees the Marker, Did January 6 Really Happen? #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Before the Grand Monuments on the Common: Boston’s First Civil War Memorial in 1867 #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
History by Algorithm or What AI Doesn’t Understand About Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
"'What VMI does next will show what it truly stands for,' Woods said. 'Are you a Confederate school? Or are you a school that wants Black people to succeed?'" #CivilWarMemory www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
From Ulysses S. Grant to Donald Trump: How “Unconditional Surrender” Became Unconditional Bluster #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Why Virginia’s January 6 Teaching Law Should Worry Everyone #CivilWarMemory #historyteacher #sschat #historyed #historyeducation open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The Myth of the ‘Loyal Black Confederate’ and the White Soldier Who Knew Better #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Thanks to Noah Price at The Monumental Project for the opportunity to talk about the ongoing debate about monuments and my work as a historian and educator. #CivilWarMemory www.buzzsprout.com/1949299/epis...
