Credits

This exhibit is an abbreviated and updated version of the exhibition Embattled Emblem, which ran from 1993 to 1995 at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia. For a more thorough history of the Confederate flag, see John M. Coski’s, The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem.


Dr. Coski has spoken in other venues on the history of the flag and its place in the contemporary historical landscape.

In 2018, he appeared at the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation to speak on Confederate flag debates.

In 2016, he spoke on a panel at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., about the flag and the history of the Lost Cause.