The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: confederacy

  • On Banning Gone With the Wind

    This movie should be forever linked with a disclaimer/explanation/warning label.

  • Unwanted Legacies: The Shame that is Nathan B. Forrest High School

    Here in Jacksonville, Florida, we have a high school named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a confederate general who led the massacre of African American union soldiers at Fort Pillow and was one of the earliest members of the Ku Klux Klan. That school was named based on the recommendations of the Daughters of the Confederacy,…