Two Voices on Black Identity and the Confederacy

Here’s good old H. K. Edgerton at work:

I especially like his distributing a t-shirt that’s been featured on another blog.

Then we turn to this YouTube video, in which the narrator asks some pointed questions:

It would be interesting to see these two people discuss the topic of Black Confederates.

Undoing a Reconstruction Wrong?

Seems that once more William W. Holden’s raising something of a ruckus in North Carolina, some 140 years after he was impeached and removed from the governor’s office.  For now comes a story (courtesy of ASU graduate student Victoria Jackson) about an effort to grant Holden a pardon (which passed the state senate) on, of all days, April 12, 2011.