Confeds In Thed Attic

Horwitz explores his deep interest in the american civil war and investigates the ties in the united states among citizens to a war that ended more than 130 years previously.

Confeds in thed attic.

Owen used taxpayer money to turn the department into an overstuffed confederate attic promoting the idea that the south s role in the civil war was noble rather than a fight to maintain slavery. Alabama archives faces its legacy as confederate attic more steve murray director of the alabama department of archives and history looks through boxes containing archival materials in. In confederates in the attic journalist tony horwitz explores the ways in which the civil war is still present in southern culture. Owen used taxpayer money to turn the department into an overstuffed confederate attic promoting the idea that the south s role in the civil war was noble rather than a fight to maintain slavery.

He reports on attitudes on the civil war and how it is discussed and taught as well as attitudes about race. Alabama archives faces its legacy as confederate attic leaders formally acknowledged the department s past role in perpetuating racism and so called lost cause ideals. Owen used taxpayer money to turn the department into an overstuffed confederate attic promoting the idea that the south s role in the civil war was noble rather than a fight to maintain slavery. Written with horwitz s signature blend of humor history and hard nosed journalism confederates in the attic brings alive old battlefields and new ones classrooms courts country bars where the past and the present collide often in explosive ways.

Confederates in the attic 1998 is a work of non fiction by pulitzer prize winning author tony horwitz. Now amid a national reckoning over racial injustice the agency is confronting that legacy in the state where the civil rights movement was born.