Confederate “Heritage” Month 2023, April 4: Language for talking about the Civil War

Kevin Levin has been writing a blog for years on Civil War and Reconstruction history and the distortions of Lost Cause pseudohistory. He tends to be a bit more polite about the latter than I am, but he does great work. Including his 2019 book, Searching for Black Confederates1, which deconstructs a favorite trope of today’s Lost Cause fans, one that is staggeringly dishonest even by the very low neo-Confederate standard.

Substack: https://brucemillerca.substack.com/p/confederate-heritage-month-2023-april-458