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Plenty of Blame to go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg by Wittenberg, Eric J.; Petruzzi, David at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  1611210984 - ISBN 13:  9781611210989 - Savas Beatie - 2011 - Softcover

Here is a story of two statues. Last week, in the Kazakh railway town of Taldykorgan, protesters looped ropes around the bronze likeness of their former autocrat, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and hauled him off his pedestal.

Thomas Jefferson, after a long stint in New Yorks City Hall, is about to get the heave-ho, courtesy of city council members long convinced the statesman, polymath and slaver had no place there. Cue the supporters and detractors of a man who played an outsized role in the creation of the United Sta...

1990s. theres no reason we need to be fielding more robert e. lees. >> kat: this is not an emotional issue for me. im white and i am from detroit. theres not a big confederate statue presence in detroit. i think, i agree, let them decide it locally. robert e. lee himself was opposed to these monuments and statues. maybe put them on battlefield or cemeteries or -- >> jessica: replace them with statues having to do what will is really going on. >> lisa: south carolina, the state legislature. its a...