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…..
