Michael Armstrong, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Michael Armstrong

Michael Armstrong is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta where he obtained his B.S. in History and his B.A. in Anthropology. He obtained his M.A.T. in Adolescent Education at Binghamton University. Mr. Armstrong teaches Middle School Social Studies in upstate New York.

Why Were Confederate Monuments Built?

By Michael Armstrong|2020-06-08T12:05:10-05:00October 17th, 2017|Categories: Civil War, Culture, History, South|

If racism was not the primary motivation for Confederate monument-building, what exactly was? In the wake of the current controversy over Confederate monuments, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has created a timeline that has made its way around the worldwide web like wildfire. It purports to show that two spikes in the building of [...]