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| '''Confederate History Month''' is a month annually designated by several state governments{{which?|date=November 2010}} in the ] for the purpose of recognizing and honoring the history of the ]. April has traditionally been chosen, as ] falls during that month in many of these states. | |||
| ==Individual declarations== | |||
| State governments or chief executives that regularly and traditionally have declared Confederate History Month are as follows: | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (since 1999) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (since 2007) | |||
| * ] (since 2009)<ref></ref> | |||
| * ] (1994–2002, 2010)<ref>http://www.governor.virginia.gov/OurCommonwealth/Proclamations/2010/ConfederateHistoryMonth.cfm</ref> | |||
| Four states that were historically part of the Confederacy, ], ], ], and ], do not have a tradition of declaring a Confederate History Month. | |||
| Some Local governments in the above states also frequently approve an independent declaration for the same larger purpose. This is also true in states where the larger legislative body does not officially recognize Confederate History Month. Some examples include: | |||
| * ] | |||
| * City of ] | |||
| * ]{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} | |||
| ==Politics== | |||
| In general, right-wing political groups such as the Sons of the Confederacy have been lobbying for such celebrations, while civil rights groups such as the ] have been opposed to them.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/opinion/11meacham.html?_r=1|title=Southern Discomfort|first=Jon|last=Meacham|work=New York Times|date=April 10, 2010|accessdate=2010-11-12}}</ref> | |||
| Confederate History Month and related celebrations have been controversial due to the contentious place of ] in the ].<ref name="walker">{{cite journal|last=Walker|first=Katherine|title=United, Regardless, and a Bit Regretful: Confederate History Month, the Slavery Apology, and the Failure of Commemoration|journal=American Nineteenth Century History|year=September 2008|volume=9|issue=3|pages=315–338|issn=14664658}}</ref> When Virginia Governor ] issued a proclamation resurrecting Confederate History Month in 2010, controversy arose due to the proclamation's omission of ].<ref></ref> McDonnell later announced, "The proclamation issued by this Office designating April as Confederate History Month contained a major omission. The failure to include any reference to slavery was a mistake, and for that I apologize to any fellow Virginian who has been offended or disappointed. The abomination of slavery divided our nation, deprived people of their God-given inalienable rights, and led to the Civil War. Slavery was an evil, vicious and inhumane practice which degraded human beings to property, and it has left a stain on the soul of this state and nation.".<ref></ref> McDonnell has indicated that he will not issue a proclaimation in future years. In 2007, the Virginia General Assembly approved a formal statement of “profound regret” for the Commonwealth’s history of slavery<ref></ref> | |||
| On April 11, 2010, Mississippi Governor ] defended McDonnell on CNN's '']'', calling the controversy raised by McDonnell's proclamation "just a nit". "It's trying to make a big deal out of something that doesn't matter for diddly," Barbour said.<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/11/haley-barbour-defends-bob_n_533358.html</ref> However, writing in '']'' a number of months later, Civil War historian Gary W. Gallagher opined: "By any reasonable standard, McDonnell's first proclamation represented a major step backward from Gilmore's approach in 2001. ... Virginia's governors might well 'continue to issue proclamations that remind modern residents of the conflict's seismic impact. They can use Governor McDonnell's initial effort as a model of how not to do so."<ref name="gallagher times">{{cite journal|last=Gallagher|first=Gary W.|title=Reevaluating Virginia's 'Shared History'|journal=]|year=August 2010|volume=49|issue=4|pages=21–22}}</ref> ]'s Frank James noted irreverently that "the document does represent progress of a sort. A conservative Southern governor ] in an official proclamation".<ref name="npr">{{cite web|last=James|first=Frank|title=Confederate History Month Rises Again In Virginia|url=http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/04/confederate_history_month_rise.html|work=The Two-Way|publisher=NPR|accessdate=9 November 2010}}</ref> | |||
| Unlike the Virginia proclamation, the 2010 Alabama proclaimation noted, "our recognition of Confederate history also recognizes that slavery was one of the causes of the war, an issue in the war, was ended by the war and slavery is hereby condemned."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://governorpress.alabama.gov/pr/proc-2010-03-22-confhistoryheritagemo.asp|title=Confederate History and Heritage Month|date=March 22, 2010|accessdate=2010-11-12}}</ref> | |||
| ==References== | |||
| {{Reflist}} | |||
| ==Further reading== | |||
| *{{cite journal|last=Berlin|first=Ira|authorlink=Ira Berlin|title=American Slavery in History and Memory and the Search for Social Justice|journal=]|year=March 2004|volume=90|issue=4|pages=1251–1268|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3660347}} | |||
| *{{cite journal|last=Horton|first=James Oliver|title=Presenting Slavery: The Perils of Telling America's Racial Story|journal=The Public Historian|year=Autumn 1999|volume=21|issue=4|pages=19–38|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3379471}} | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| * - audio report by '']'' | |||
| * by Adele Stan, '']'' | |||
| * by '']'' | |||
| {{US Holidays}} | |||
| {{Coord missing|United States}} | |||
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