Eulogized by late-19th-century Southern revisionists as a noble "Lost Cause," the Confederacy nowadays receives the opposite treatment. Meanwhile, those of us who understand secession's dark origins but nonetheless wish to preserve and even celebrate some Confederate monuments have good reason to feel besieged by the woke intolerance of our day....
Eulogized by late-19th-century Southern revisionists as a noble “Lost Cause,” the Confederacy nowadays receives the opposite treatment. Meanwhile, those of us who understand secession’s dark origins but nonetheless wish to preserve and even celebrate some Confederate monuments have good reason to feel besieged by the woke intolerance of our day….
