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Jewish art exhibit at Princeton canceled over ties to the Confederacy

The cancellation has drawn criticism from the exhibit’s Jewish donors and consulting historians, who say the decision “rewrites art history.”

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Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is seen in Princeton, New Jersey, November 20, 2015. Princeton University has pledged to consider renaming buildings dedicated to former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, the latest U.S. campus effort to quell student comp
Yoni Appelbaum

The Capitol siege rattled him, yet Appelbaum is more worried about 2024

Hartman’s president, Yehuda Kurtzer, spoke with Yoni Appelbaum, the Atlantic’s Ideas editor, who also taught history and literature at Harvard University, Babson College and at Brandeis University.

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Left: a noose hung by rioters on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. Right: a man wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" jacket.

Capitol riots: What far-right hate symbols were on display?

Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, who said he quit the group in 2018, was spotted in the DC crowd.

|ByLAURA E. ADKINS/JTA, EMILY BURACK/JTA
The Mississippi state flag, which incorporates the Confederate battle flag, hangs with other state flags in the subway system under the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 23, 2015.

Mississippi voters replace old Confederate state flag

The new flag will replace the flag the state had flown for 126 years

|ByAARON REICH

Judah P. Benjamin: A Jewish Confederate leader

Why the ‘brains of the Confederacy’ remained relatively un-commemorated

OCTOBER 29, 2020ByGIL ZOHAR
Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis (third from left) and his cabinet, including Judah Benjamin (second from left).

US House to vote on banishing Confederate statues from Capitol building

Democrats said they hoped the legislation would win bipartisan support.

JULY 22, 2020ByREUTERS
Activists in Richmond, Virginia, took a different approach to vandalizing Cofederate statues by projecting the image of a Pride flag and the initials for Black Lives Matter on a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee Friday night in support of black LGBT rights, CNN reported. Ever since the st

Can America come back from calamity and crisis?

American legend is built on highly imperfect people who strove to create a more perfect union.

JULY 14, 2020BySHMULEY BOTEACH
WORKMEN GET READY to load the toppled Richmond Howitzers Monument, erected in 1892 to commemorate a Confederate artillery unit, onto a truck, after protesters against racial inequality pulled it down in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday.

Statue of George Washington torn down by protesters in Portland

ABC-affiliate KATU reported that there were between "30 and 40 people" gathered on the German American Society lawn "at the time," where the statue stood the night before.

JUNE 21, 2020ByZACHARY KEYSER, REUTERS
A statue of George Washington is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)