The Green Room: Confederate flags and monuments

Since the massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, last month, the debate over whether the Confederate flag and monuments to leaders of the Confederacy have any place in the contemporary South has become quite heated. In an effort to separate the signal from the noise in this discussion, New Wave sat down with two members of the Tulane University History Department faculty to discuss the Civil War and alternatives for honoring heroes.