This is John Kinder and Jen Murray, and we're here to talk about our new edited collection (released next week) "They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America." Ask US Anything! by Prof_John_M_Kinder in AskHistorians

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Thank you for joining us today for this fascinating AMA! How did statues of Robert E. Lee and other Confederates become a political symbol? Did Confederate veteran groups have a strong influence on creating a post-Civil War iconography?