Confederate Monument Dilemma

Practically Historical Offers the Following Solutions

• The Confederate flag should never be flown over government buildings or property
• The Confederate flag should not be banned
• Monuments to Confederate leaders, political or military, should not be kept on government or public property
• Monuments dedicated to unnamed soldiers who fought for the Confederacy should be allowed on public property
• Communities have every right to determine which people are publicly memorialized
• The destruction seen in Durham is unacceptable
• The actions of the KKK and ne0-Nazi groups in Charlottesville are unacceptable
• Confederate monuments in cemeteries should be left alone
• Confederate monuments on battlefields should be left alone 
• Comparing Confederate leaders to our Founders is unacceptable
• Destroying or defacing monuments to our Founders is unacceptable 
• Studying Confederate history is necessary
• Confederate Civil War reenactors should not be ostracized
• Slavery caused the Civil War
• Not all Confederate soldiers fought for slavery
• Not all Union soldiers fought to free slaves 
• We need to keep reading, writing, and learning…..