Segment from Contested Landscape

Seeds of Doubt

Former Civil War re-enactor and dyed-in-the-wool Southerner Waverly Adcock talks Ed Ayers about his mixed feelings about the cause for which his ancestors fought.

Monument Avenue

Historian Maurie McInnis and Brenda Stevenson, and journalist Michael Paul Williams weigh in on the history and controversy of the Confederate monuments along Richmond, Virginia’s Monument Avenue.

00:10:17

Should They Stay or Go?

Ed, Nathan and Brian talk about what to do with Confederate statues, and how we should think about them.

00:05:05

American Civil War Museum historian John Coski walks Ed Ayers through the evolution of the Confederate flag’s design—from the original “Stars and Bars” to the “rebel flag” we know today, and its long, twisty path to becoming a pop culture icon.

00:14:42

Confederate States of Mind

Multimedia producer Logan Jaffe talks with three Americans for whom the Confederate flag represents three very different things.

00:08:19

Seeds of Doubt

Former Civil War re-enactor and dyed-in-the-wool Southerner Waverly Adcock talks Ed Ayers about his mixed feelings about the cause for which his ancestors fought.

00:11:25