Greg Huffman

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Greg is general counsel for Moretz Marketing and of counsel at Milazzo Schaffer Webb Law. He also serves as the chancellor of the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.

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TWISTED SOURCES: How Confederate propaganda ended up in the South's schoolbooks

By Greg Huffman

April 10, 2019 - Though better known these days for erecting statues to Confederate veterans during the Jim Crow era, the United Daughters of the Confederacy also promoted white supremacist Lost Cause propaganda through their campaigns to control history textbooks used in the South's public schools. That miseducation continues to haunt our politics today.

The group behind Confederate monuments also built a memorial to the Klan

By Greg Huffman

June 8, 2018 - The United Daughters of the Confederacy didn't just memorialize Confederate veterans. It also memorialized the Ku Klux Klan and shared its ideology of white supremacy.

VOICES: A window into the horrors of our history

By Greg Huffman

August 25, 2017 - Reared by amateur historians, the author spent childhood vacations traveling to historic sites and coming to grips with his family's role in the Civil War. The experience taught him that monuments alone are not history, but they can shed light on the dark history surrounding their erection.