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This blog post explores a lesser-known piece of Confederate iconography, the Southern Cross of Honor. The US government’s gradual complicity in the establishment of these markers reveals how, and why, some insurrections become legitimized over time.

Today marks the three-month anniversary of the January 6th, 2021 storming of the Capitol, an act of domestic terrorism led by members from white nationalist groups. This is exactly the kind of event that author Sara Kamali has spent the last decade researching for her new book, Homegrown Hate: W