Below you will find links to media outlets for articles in which I was interviewed and quoted.
‘Uncharted Territory’: For Historians Navigating Online Hate, A Scholarly Association Offers a Map, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 3, 2019.
How historians got Nike to pull an ad campaign–in under six hours, Washington Post, April 12, 2019
The Costs of the Confederacy, Smithsonian Magazine, December 2018
Time to Expose the Women Still Celebrating the Confederacy, The Daily Beast, November 2, 2018.
7 Things the United Daughters of the Confederacy might not want you to know about them, Salon, October 6, 2018
‘A lesson for the living’: The group behind Silent Sam and its historical relationship to UNC, The Daily Tarheel, October 2, 2018.
“Murder, She Rewrote,” Country Living Magazine, September 21, 2018
‘Silent Sam’: A racist Jim Crow-era speech inspired UNC students to topple a Confederate monument on Campus, The Washington Post, August 21, 2018
University Leaders Condemn Confederate Statue Toppling in North Carolina, Courthouse News Service, August 21, 2018
The Secret Fight to Save Confederate Monuments, Glamour, August 16, 2018
‘The lost cause’: The women’s group fighting to save Confederate monuments, The Guardian (UK), August 10, 2018 (Originally filed through Associated Press)
The group behind Confederate monuments also built a memorial to the Klan, Facing South, June 8, 2018.
Mississippi Public Broadcasting (Radio), November 30, 2017
Interviewed about Goat Castle for “Revisiting Goat Castle,” Oxford Magazine, November 2017.
“How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History,” (video) Vox, October 25, 2017.
Interviewed/quoted about “Gone With the Wind,” for «Autant en emporte le vent», un film «insultant», Slate (France), October 23, 2017.
Interviewed/quoted for “As monuments to the Confederacy are removed from public squares, new ones are quietly being erected,” Los Angeles Times, October 22, 2017.
Interviewed/quoted about Confederate monuments for Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo, Japan), October 19, 2017.
Interviewed/quoted for “Monument göms i trälåda – för att inte skapa ilska,” Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish Daily), October 15, 2017.
Interviewed about my book Goat Castle for “These White People Profited Off Their Neighbor’s Murder,” VICE, October 3, 2017.
Interviewed/quoted for “The Lost Dream of a Superhighway to Honor the Confederacy,” The Atlantic, August 29, 2017.
Interviewed/quoted for “Why Women Put Up So Many Confederate Statues After the Civil War,” The Daily Beast, August 26, 2017.
Interviewed/quoted for “As Confederate Statues Fall, the Group Behind Most of Them Stays Quiet,” Newsweek, August 25, 2017.
Interviewed by i24NEWS (Israel) about Confederate monuments.
Interview. BBC Newshour Extra. “An historian’s view: what do statues of Robert E. Lee represent?” August 25, 2017
Interview/quoted for “American Has More Than 100 Roads Named for the President of the Confederacy,” The Daily Beast, August 23, 2017.
Quoted in “A major university in the South just removed its Confederate statues overnight.” Upworthy, August 21, 2017.
Quoted in “Trump belebt den Bürgerkrieg,”Neues Deutschland, August 19, 2017
Quoted in “Confederate Monuments are not mere “harmless history.’” Independent (Ireland), August 18, 2017.
Interviewed/Quoted for “Symbols in the South: A turning point for Confederate monuments,” The Globe and Mail (Canada). August 18, 2017.
Interview/quoted for “Nu fjernes sydstatsmonumenterne i ly af natten,” Information (Copenhagen, Denmark), August 18, 2017.
Quoted in “Robert E. Lee discouraged monuments. They ‘keep open the sores of war,’ he wrote,” Washington Post, August 18, 2017.
Quoted in “The Lost Cause President,” U.S. News, August 17, 2017.
Interviewed/quoted about Confederate monuments for KNX/CBS News Radio, Los Angeles, August 17, 2017.
Interviewed/quoted for “White women helped build the statues sparking conflict across the South,” Mic, August 16, 2017
Interview/quoted for “Did Confederate monuments gain prominence during the civil rights era?” Politifact, August 15, 2017.
Interview/quoted for “What can communities do with Confederate monuments?” CNN.com, June 30, 2017.
Interviewed/quoted for “Why are Eight Confederate Icons Still Proudly Displayed in the U.S. Capitol?” Village Voice, June 13, 2017.
Interviewed by WGBH’s Adam Reilly on a Confederate Memorial in Boston, June 8, 2017
Interviewed/quoted “Echoes of slave-owning past bring change to Rice’s college masters,” Houston Chronicle, April 11, 2017
Interviewed by Michael Smerconish on his Sirius XM Radio show about my New York Times op-ed “How North Carolina Lost Its Cool” (Print title)
“Would there have been a debate over the Confederate flag 100 years ago?” a video chat with The Civil War Monitor, September 18, 2015.
Discussion of southern identity on Minnesota Public Radio (MPR News with Kerri Miller), July 29, 2015
Quoted in Charlotte Observer article “Defaced Memorial Stirred Controversy from the Beginning,” July 24, 2015
Quoted in the Wall Street Journal article “Confederate-Symbol Backlash Grows,” July 9, 2015
Blog for the Huffington Post “Confederate Monuments Don’t Belong on the Landscapes of Government,” June 30, 2015.
Discussion of the Confederate battle flag on Georgia Public Broadcasting June 30, 2015
Quoted in Süddeutsche Zeitung, a leading German daily newspaper, regarding the Confederate battle flag. June 25, 2015
Appeared in The Southern Foodways Alliance podcast series called “Gravy” to discuss how black women have been used to sell food products in the episode Fried Chicken: A Complicated Comfort Food, June 18, 2015
My Graduate Class on Heritage Tourism went to Charleston. The story appeared in UNCC’s Exchange Online, April 21, 2015
A shout out to Pop South AHA Member Spotlight: David Vivian, July 30, 2014
“Writer Searching for Goat Castle Details,” Natchez Democrat, July 17, 2014
Pop South mentioned in “Dear Mr. Kristof: A Letter from a Public Intellectual,” Tenured Radical, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 18, 2014
Interviewed by Voice of Russia about the South and the Government Shutdown, October 16, 2013
Interviewed for “Cotillions and Etiquette Schools,” WFAE Radio 90.7, October 7, 2013
Quoted in ‘Duck Dynasty’: Why is this show so popular?, San Jose Mercury, March 27, 2013
Quoted in “The South Still Lies About the Civil War,” in Salon.com, March 16, 2013
Interviewed and quoted by the Los Angeles Times,”Rednecks translate to greenbacks on TV,” March 10, 2013
CBC (Canadian Public Broadcasting) Radio–Day 6 with Brent Bambury, January 11, 2013
Hal Ginsberg Talk Show, KRXA 540 AM, Carmel Valley, CA, November 19, 2012
Op-ed mentioned on The History News Network, November 19, 2012
Op-ed mentioned in The Maddow Blog (Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC), Blue-dot Democrats part red sea, November 19, 2012
“What’s the Problem with Uncle Poodle: A Queer Historian and Her Critics,” Tenured Radical, The Chronicle of Higher Education Blog Network, October 13, 2012
“Southern Hospitality and What it Means to be Hospitable,” Charlotte Talks, WFAE 90.7, Sept. 21, 2012
“Whistling Past Dixie–Hosting the DNC is Bad Southern Strategy,” HuffPost Live, Sept. 2012
“State Spends on Reality TV Airtime,” Houma Today, Jan. 28, 2012
“Eyes on the South,” Greensboro News and Record, Jan. 9, 2012
Several short radio interviews on the South in pop culture with Demetri Ravanos, WPTF 850 AM (Raleigh, NC), 2012
“Kentucky’s Turtleman join’s TV’s wave of ‘hixploitation’ oddities,” Louisville Journal-Courier, Oct. 20, 2011
“Dreaming of Dixie,” C-Span, Sept. 19, 2011
“Gone With the Wind Still Evokes Strong Feelings,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 2, 2011
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