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Topic: Confederacy

A collage of various Confederate and Soviet "memorabilia," including a bust of Vladimir Lenin, a statue of Robert E. Lee, and various postage stamps. (Illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Toxic nostalgia: MAGA's Russia syndrome

Dzmitry Halko
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth meets with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) at the U.S. Capitol on December 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Paranoid Hegseth bans the Enola Gay

Amanda Marcotte
Jefferson Davis and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supreme Court’s Civil War callback

Jeffrey Abramson, Dennis Aftergut
Nikki Haley (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Nikki Haley, MAGA and the Confederacy

Rich Logis
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Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley addresses the crowd during a campaign stop at the Nevada Fairgrounds community building on December 18, 2023 in Nevada, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Haley deserves no grace for war gaffe

Heather Digby Parton
Workers remove the statue of Robert E. Lee at the Marcus-David Peters circle prior to its removal on September 8, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. (Eze Amos/Getty Images)

Were the Confederates right? Spoiler: no

Paul Rosenberg
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to reporters outside of the U.S. Capitol May 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

MTG shows off Confederate beer cooler

Kelly McClure
Vintage Civil War print of the Battle of Fort Sanders (Getty Images/Stock Montage)

The South won the psychological war

Matthew Rozsa
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Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump chant slogans and hold signs outside of the Philadelphia Convention Center as the counting of ballots continues in the state on November 06, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Trump's Big Lie: The new Lost Cause

Lucian K. Truscott IV
View of the Confederate memorial, with an added Confederate flag made out of flowers, Jasper, Alabama, 2010. (Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

White America's "hidden wound"

Kirk Swearingen
People gather around the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, on June 4, 2020, amid continued protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody. (Ryan M. Kelly/AFP via Getty Images)

Robert E. Lee and the Trumpers

Chauncey DeVega
Ku Klux Klan Marching in Washington | American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP's war on truth gets serious

Chauncey DeVega
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A supporter of US President Donald Trump holds a Confederate flag outside the Senate Chamber during a protest after breaching the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. - The demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Jan. 6: The Confederacy's big comeback

Chauncey DeVega
Trump supporters near the U.S Capitol, on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. The protesters stormed the historic building, breaking windows and clashing with police. (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Six months later: How much do we know?

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump, a painting of the Confederate army losing and the January 6, 2021 US Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump and the new Lost Cause

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Donald Trump, behind bars (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

An ex-president in prison? It'd be ugly

Matthew Rozsa
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Vivien Leigh in "Gone with the Wind" (John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

German nostalgia for US antebellum South

Sanders Isaac Bernstein - The Conversation
Donald Trump | The Confederate Flag | Mt. Rushmore (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Answer to military dilemma: Fort Trump!

Roger Sollenberger
Statue of Jefferson Davis inside a crypt in Mississippi (Dwaine Rieves)

Lessons of a Confederate behind bars

Dwaine Rieves
Donald Trump | The Confederate Flag | Mt. Rushmore (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's white supremacist Fourth of July

Chauncey DeVega
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Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump (Win McNamee/Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump threatens to veto military bill

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Black Lives Matter activists occupy the traffic circle underneath the statue of Confederate General Robert Lee, now covered in graffiti, on June 13, 2020 at Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

America is haunted by its history

Chauncey DeVega
An employee holds up a Confederate flag during the manufacturing process at the Alabama Flag and Banner (Getty Images/Ty Wright)

A brief history of the "Lost Cause"

Bob Cesca
The Castleman statue in Louisville, Kentucky, after it was vandalized in 2018 (Ashlie Stevens)

Kentucky removes Confederate relic

Ashlie D. Stevens
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