Bob McDonnell, the governor of Virginia, set himself in the middle of a category-5 media storm the last couple weeks as a result of his proclamation declaring April 2010, "Confederate History Month."
Despite the long record of months celebrating the…
In this photograph from the University Archives Photograph Collection, two Reserve Officers' Training Corps students view an American Civil War exhibit at D. H. Hill Library in 1960, roughly one hundred years after the presidential election of 1960,…