Museum of the Confederacy Considering Name Change

The Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | 20 February 2006 | Janet Caggiano

[Rebeleye]

The Museum of the Confederacy will likely drop the word "Confederacy" from its name when it moves its collection to a new home.

[linda_22003]

In those days, women were not supposed to wear makeup; they were considered "fast" if they did. You remember Scarlett pinching her cheeks to redden them. This was quite a change from earlier days, when women wore heavy wax-based foundation (often to cover the scars left by smallpox). That's why you see those pedestal fans in front of old fireplaces; they were at the right height to shield a woman's face from the heat, so her face wouldn't melt. :)

[The Great RJ]

How about naming it The Museum of Those We Dare Not Mention?

[MACVSOG68]

Well, how about the Museum of the Armed Struggle for States' Rights ?

That probably wouldn't work since states have no rights; only persons have rights.

Or the Museum of the War of Northern Aggression?

Probably wouldn't work either, since SC started the "aggression".

Sad that revisionists have made slavery (a secondary issue on which the South was wrong) into the supposed causus belli.)

Slavery, of course, was always the issue, from 1787 on when the delegates agreed to leave it off the table to get a union formed. It was the issue from the time of the Louisiana purchase, and remained the issue throughout Western expansion. The South believed it could both forge and alliance with European powers for cheap goods and enlarge its Confederacy by bringing in the new Western states. And so after the Buchanan presidency filled with compromises to the South, the Lincoln election spelled the beginning of the end to slavery, at least in the minds of Southerners.

So no high moral goals were in the minds of the secessionists. If the United States was so restrictive of liberty, why did the Confederacy use its Constitution as a model?

Having said all that, I don't have a problem with the Museum of the Confederacy at all. Our history should not exclude this era. The museum will be a reminder of what can happen when governments fail to protect the rights of all of its citizens.

[jbwbubba]

Museum of the Other Guys??

[Tax-chick]

conjuring up, as it does, memories of the General's horse

LOL!

[Dante3]

Good quote.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I guess "The Museum of Secessionist Treason" will make the usual suspects happy. ;)

[ladyjane]

A museum about the Confederacy without "Confederacy" in the title?

The museum won't be about the confederacy. It will end up being about whining and blaming.

[Fiji Hill]

This happened in the case of the Confederate Air Force. This organization, which restores old warplanes and displays them at air shows, is now the Commemorative Air Force.

[massgopguy]

I always liked Granny Clampett calling it; The War Twixt the North and the Americans.

[wtc911]

(On the primary issue--states' rights--the South was right. Sad that revisionists have made slavery (a secondary issue on which the South was wrong) into the supposed causus belli.)

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Ah, another freeper who would have us forget that the very specific 'state right' was the 'right' of one man to buy, sell, trade and own another man (or woman or child).

[BRUMama]

"EXACTLY who is "many"? How "many"? When did the "many" get together and decide to re-write history, AGAIN?
Happy National Race Pimps Month to everybody, even the white people!"


And just how MANY of those people would actually have ANY interest in visiting a museum dedicated to the confederacy no matter WHAT it is called???

[miss marmelstein]

It was named after the horse, of course, but doesn't serve horse meat, LOL!

[linda_22003]

I'm just saying it might be an unfortunate association - like "Chuck E. Cheese" using vermin to advertise food.... ;)

[Moose4]

Utterly ridiculous. But, this IS Richmond we're talking about, a city that's been trying to deny its own history for decades now, so I'm not surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised.

What I am also disappointed about is that somebody in Lexington--a town so strongly associated with both Lee and Jackson--would speak out so strongly against it. But again I'm not surprised--Lexington is still a college town, even though one of those colleges is Virginia Military Institute, and has its own collection of raving liberal academic nutburgers.

The fact that the simple factual phrase "Museum of the Confederacy" can't be used to describe, well, a museum of the Confederacy...welcome to America, 2007.

}:-)4

[Moose4]

Take your blood pressure pills before reading.

}:-)4

[Non-Sequitur]

"The repositioning we have done over the past 30 years is to be more of a modern education institution and less of a memorial . . . to the Confederacy."

How about repositioning yourself to be a modern educational institution on the confederacy? Or didn't anyone think of that?

[Phosgood]

The Richmond Times Dispatch has already changed the name in their front page, above the fold headline, to: Civil War museum.
Go vote on their website or pout in silence.

[Phosgood]

" wonder if "Travellers" is a good name "

The Fort Lee Army Paper, "the Traveller" used to carry a picture of Lee's faithful mount on it's banner, Then they changed it to a hobby horse and now it is a faint copy of the Ford Mustang logo.

For the 200th anniversary of R E Lee's birth date this year, Fort Lee had not one ceremony.

[Admin Moderator]

The Times-Dispatch must be excerpted, as you know. Yet you posted the entire story in Post 1.

Never do that again.