His name is Larry Schweikart, professor of history at the University of Dayton and the author of " A Patriot's History of the United States." These are some of his tweets and retweets this week.
To remove Confederate memorials is not to white-wash history, far from it. It’s to finally remove the stain which concealed for too many Americans the reasons for why that hideous war was fought.
This time, the top military figures in the administration may be forced to try to short-circuit an impulsive over-reaction by their commander-in-chief rather than the other way around.
