Those who worry that Baltimore is on the verge of whitewashing its history by removing statues of former Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney — author of the infamous Dred Scott decision — and of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson would do well to read the commission's report. In content and context, the two statues the commission recommended keeping — the Confederate Women's Monument near the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus and the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument on Mount Royal Avenue — reflect far more poorly on Baltimore's history than do the two that would be removed. These are not "Confederacy-light." They are enduring testaments not only to the fact that many in Baltimore supported the South during the Civil War but also the extent to which city leaders spent the ensuing decades mythologizing the Confederacy as a noble, lost cause. They are going to require some heavy-duty contextualization if they are going to acknowledge unfortunate attitudes of our past without lionizing them.