Mary C History

               This packet featured three different professionals with three varying opinions on the topic of Confederate memorials. The first professional was J. Pepper Bryars in his article "America, how should we remember this soldier?" defends the position that Confederate soldiers "deserve to be remembered and honored"(Bryars) and that to take down confederate memorials would disgrace their memory. In his argument, Bryars uses a poignant story of a married man and father who lived in Montgomery, named Elijah, and who felt the call to war joining the Confederacy and died and was buried in a mass grave leaving his family unable to completely grieve. Bryar then talks about how these mass graves were found and memorialized and how protesters desecrated these remains by taking down the memorials. The next speaker in the packet is LeeAnna Keith with her article "Put Progressive Civil War Republicans on a pedestal" where she argu...

I want to research scandals of the 19th century Industrial America : The Girl on the swing-> architect scandal Why do people now have time for scandals? Do magazines, newspapers, and transportation aide this transition to national scandals? Who were the families that were in the national spotlight? What this meant about American values? Marriage scandals? Political scandals? Business Scandals? What does this mean for the legal system? Are laws being put in place after these scandals take place? Are the guilty parties incarcerated?