Berry Craig is a professor emeritus of history at West KY Community College, and an author of seven books and co-author of two more. (Read the rest on the Contributors page.)
The controversial statues of Confederate Maj. John B. Castleman and nativist Louisville Journal editor George D. Prentice will be gone by the end of the year, according to news reports. Good riddance. A special panel named by Mayor Greg Fischer said the monuments “honoring the Confederacy are unwelcome in Louisville
First District Congressman James Comer brought his dog whistle to Fancy Farm and the Republican white folks heard it loud and clear.
“Are working-class white voters shooting themselves in the foot by making common cause with a political movement that is fundamentally inimical to their economic self-interest?” Joshua Zeitzasked [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/31/trump-white-working-class-history-216200] inPoliticoonline. APoliticocontributing editor, Zeitz meant Trumpism. The multitude of blue collar whites who’
