Alabama Archives faces its legacy as Confederate ‘attic’

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Leaders in Alabama are confronting the legacy of what might be the grandest Confederate memorial of all: the state’s Department of Archives and History. Founded in 1901, the agency became a vast repository of Confederate records and artifacts. During the current national reckoning over race, its current leaders acknowledged the department once played a role in systemic racism by promoting “lost cause” narrative of Civil War history that was favored