Media
The Antidemocratic Reality
of the Confederacy
CBS News
As the country grapples with monuments in local public spaces, Stephanie McCurry joined CBSN to discuss how the history of the Confederacy was rewritten over the years to obscure its oppressive and antidemocratic reality.
Taking Down Statues
BEME News
There were more than 700 confederate statues and monuments across the U.S. in 2016. Many of them are now coming down. This is a story about one of them—and why it was built in the first place.
Confederate Reckoning
C-SPAN Book-TV
Stephanie McCurry discusses her book on the power and influence that Southern women and blacks had on the defeat of the Confederacy.
Recent Podcasts
Recent Commentary
Times Record | June 14, 2020 At least 18 Confederate monuments in public places throughout Arkansas
USA Today | June 12, 2020 Will the Black Lives Matter movement finally put an end to Confederate flags and statues?
The Guardian | June 7, 2020 Irene Triplett, last person to collect an American civil war pension, dies at 90
The Washington Post | April 4, 2018 A Georgia city proclaimed April as Confederate History Month. Then came the n-word.
Past Talks
In Conversation With Historians: Black Lives Matter, Part II Wednesday, July 29, 2020 @ 4pm ET
Women During the American Civil War Monday, June 22, 2020 @ 6pm ET | Zoom Talk
Understanding Charlottesville
White Nationalism and American Society—Past, Present and Future
Lectures
Reconstructing: A Georgia Woman’s Life Amidst the Ruins Feb. 22, 2019 | 22nd Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture at the University of Georgia