#Confederates

Kevin Gannon misses Grogu

TheTattooedProf

Hi there-Civil War historian here. So, uh...this is really, really far from "The Truth." Got a minute? /1https://twitter.com/senatormcdaniel/status/1029916257490018304 2/ Lee certainly did not believe slavery was wrong. In an 1856

Openly Black Mikki Kendall

Karnythia

What's hilarious about tweets like these is that they ignore every word the Confederacy wrote about itself. The Confederate Constitution made it clear the war was about the "right" to

D.A. Bullock

BullyCreative

All these elected Republicans still covering for Trump and white supremacist insurrection IS EXACTLY white southern ex-confederates trying to infiltrate congress after the Civil War. EXACTLY. The Battle of Liberty

Michael McAuliff

mmcauliff

Here’s the bust of Roger Taney that the House just voted 305-113 to remove, along with the statues of confederates. Taney was the Chief Justice who wrote the Dred Scott

Kurt Schlichter

KurtSchlichter

I know a little bit about the Civil War - I’m being modest for effect – but I have no idea who Benning was. I do know millions of soldiers

Bret Devereaux

BretDevereaux

So I'm seeing the same set of reactions to the line "this isn't what America is" which is to respond with the obvious truth that...well, yes it is.The United States

Stephen Robinson

SER1897

Yes, Lincoln was a pushover who was so desperate to bring our “badly divided country” together that he expended political capital on passing a Constitutional amendment banning slavery. That was

Kevin M. Levin

KevinLevin

Watching the live removal of the Confederate statue in Albemarle County's Court House Square in the city of Charlottesville.https://www.facebook.com/Albemarle.County/videos/318192269452093 I had concerns about the live removal when it w

Staten Island Young Republican Club

StatenIslandYRs

THREAD: Throughout this #BlackHistoryMonth we’ll be highlighting Black Americans and their contributions to the Republican Party. Often criticized as the party of “old white men,” few realize that the

🌵🌊 Trump Killed the Party of Lincoln 🌊🌵

SuaveMoose

I understand the reasons for Civil War in 1860. We really did have two completely different cultures and economies, one of which was completely immoral, of course. What I see

Nikki Schwab

NikkiSchwab

"I can tell you that I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die," @AOC tells supporters tonight on InstagramLive. "I did not know if

Dave Grogu Miller

davemiller7

I am struggling as I work thru how we as Baptists deal with the past. I am A-okay with removing monuments that celebrate evil. Seems like a no-brainer. The Confederacy

Benny

bennyjohnson

TEAR DOWN PRESIDENT LINCOLN STATUE IN WASHINGTON DC Hundreds of (mostly white) protesters have shown up.Why? Because this statue honoring the signing of the emancipation proclamation is “racist.”Where did the

Douglas Guilbeault

DzGuilbeault

1/ Our new paper is out today in @NatureComms! “Experimental Evidence of Scale-induced Category Convergence across Populations.” In a time of so much political division, I hope this study can

Greg Greene

ggreeneva

The reason Republican officials and elites hit the roof when government starts to focus on violent right-wing extremism keeps staring us in the face: all too many officials see militias

Equity Scientist 🦋

BmoreDoc

History is repeating itself. After the Civil War, the North largely stood down (except for a soft Southern occupation thru 1876).Former Confederates ratcheted up a campaign of massacres and terror.

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