12  A Name by Any Other Name

 

Sources

Welcome Students, Let’s Talk About Confederate Statues (Wall Street Journal)

What Happened When One University Moved a Confederate Statue to a Museum

   (Chronicle of Higher Education)

This University Is Removing a Statue of Its Slave-Owning Founder  (CNN)

Race, History and Robert E. Lee (Inside Higher Education)

After Confederate Monument Is Torn Down, UNC Promises to Come Up With a Plan to Protect Silent Sam

  (Washington Post)

How Colleges Confront Their Racist Pasts (Chronicle of Higher Education)

 

 

 

Further Reading

Washington and Lee Renames Buildings, Replaces Military Portraits of Its Namesakes (Washington Post)

The Trashing of George Mason University  (Wall Street Journal)

How George Mason Will Take the Controversy out of Its Gift Agreement  (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Washington and Lee Won’t Change Its Name. But a Year After Charlottesville, the School Is Not

   Unchanged (Washington Post)

Hundreds Of UNC Faculty Members Urge Officials Not to Restore Silent Sam Statue to Its Original

   Location (Washington Post)

UNC’s President on Silent Sam: ‘We’ve Seen Less Receptivity to Other Points of View’

   (Chronicle of Higher Education)

UNC leader apologizes for university’s role in slavery (Washington Post)

Margaret Spellings Resigns as President of University of North Carolina System (Wall Street Journal)

Margaret Spellings Will Step Down in March as U. of North Carolina President
   (Chronicle of Higher Education)

NC universities head Margaret Spellings quits amid turmoil (Washington Post)