The Richmond Times Dispatch has the details of the resolution of the controversy over the Confederate flags at the Lee Chapel. The short version is that the replica flags, which have been there since the 1990s, will come down. (The original flags were placed there in the 1930s.) Then original flags from the Confederate Literary Society (which operates the White House of the Confederacy) will be displayed on a rotating basis. Close readers of the faculty lounge may recall that in the early twentieth century Congress authorized the War Department to return captured Confederate flags to their states (or when they could not be matched to a state, to the Confederate Literary Society in Richmond).
I'm guessing that the originals, which must be incredibly fragile at this point, will be displayed under glass.
If you're interested in hearing more about W&L's history with slavery (and anti-slavery), here's a talk I gave there back in 2010.
Update: President Ruscio's full statement is here.
H/t Terry Meyers.
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