Josh The Lighthouse Guy
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ECW News: The War Over Memory at Manassas - Emerging Civil War
What part of this sign is factually incorrect? It’s a trick question: none of it is factually inaccurate. But as The New York Times reported last week, this sign at Manassas National Battlefield Park was slated for removal this week because of the last sentence in the second column. (Go ahead...
emergingcivilwar.com
This sentence is not okay:
"The dedication ceremony perpetuated Lost Cause mythology, however, emphasizing Confederate valor and ignoring slavery as the central cause of the CIvil War."
But these sentences are okay?
"Adherents of the Lost Cause laid claim to the historical narrative of Manassas Battlefield - site of two Southern victories - as the federal government prepared to accepted ownership of Henry Hill. The Jackson statue epitomizes the complicated legacy of the park's creation and the preservation of the battlefield as a place of contested memory."
All because of the S-word.
(I suppose this could have gone in the Monument discussion, but as it's really about the signage and the issue of "slavery" being mentioned on the signage it seemed to fit better here.)
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