Nina Silber, professor and chair of the history department at Boston University, has written extensively on the U.S. Civil War and its afterlife. Her latest book is “This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America” (Chapel Hill, 2018).
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Don't Think Racism Is Baked Into Our Culture? Just Look At BU's Beloved Mascot, Rhett The Terrier
How did a progressive-thinking northern university end up with a mascot named for a character from one of the most successful pro-Confederate, and racist, romances in American culture?