JOHN BROWN TODAYA Biographer's Blog

Saturday, May 26, 2012

New and Notable:

"Confederate Truths": New Website Exposes the Realities of the Confederacy and Neo-Confederate Movement

The Confederate Truths web site, in association with the Winter Institute, is an Internet extension of the book, The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: "The Great Truth" about The "Lost Cause," edited by James W. Loewen and Edward H. Sebesta, and published by the University Press of Mississippi. On this web site you can learn the truth about the Confederacy and Neo-Confederacy.

Undoubtedly, this is going to prove an extremely valuable resource in debunking the racist mythology surrounding the Confederacy as a noble and heroic movement. The site is loaded with information. One example is provided on the "Reconstruction and Fusion" link, where Gen. Robert E. Lee's real colors show in an episode where he tells a Col. Carter that in order to save money, he should get ride of the ninety black laborers on his farm, including women and children, because the government would take care of them. “I have always observed that wherever you find the negro," Lee declared, "everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.”

As noted, Confederate Truths is a companion to the Loewen and Sebesta book, The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. We are pleased to learn about this resource and look forward to using it, and recommending it to the readers of this blog.

Confederate Truths: Documents of the Confederate & Neo-Confederate Tradition from 1787 to the Present http://www.confederatepastpresent.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=53

Harriet Tubman URR Conference, June 1-2

The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference is ready to go with great

speakers and workshops. The conference is June 1-2 at Chesapeake College -

Cambridge Branch in Cambridge Maryland. Program begins with a light lunch