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Confederates
June 26, 2020
J. Davis Winkie
How the Confederates Conquered America’s “Home of the Infantry”
It’s one of the largest military bases on earth. And since it opened, Fort Benning has been a monument to white supremacy.
October 14, 2013
Sam Tanenhaus
How That Confederate Flag at the White House Got There
The intellectual romance of the new right and the old south

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