The Coming Police State
We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil...
Visitors of Charleston Historical Sites Are Being Asked to Report ‘Negative’ Stories About America
SULLIVAN'S ISLAND — Some of the Confederate shots that started the Civil War were fired from here. And today, if you don't like what you hear or see about the story you can report it for being negative about U.S. history. In the past month, signs encouraging visitors...
Our Homegrown Extremists
The suspect in the Minnesota murders, Vance Luther Boelter, has been charged, for now, with second-degree murder. He allegedly killed two people, Melissa and Mark Hortman, in cold blood, and shot and wounded two others. According to Minnesota police, he showed up at...
News From Around the South, 6/16 to 6/23
SOUTH CAROLINA: How a raid in SC freeing 700 slaves became a Pulitzer Prize-winning book Author and researcher Edda Fields-Black discovered her own family tie to the raid in the process Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came...
Trump, War and the Constitution
Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions...
“The Most Incompetent Man in the Confederacy”: John Pemberton In Over His Head
ECW welcomes back guest author Lucas Simmons. John C. Pemberton ended the Civil War with a less-than-stellar reputation. Confederate surgeon John A. Leavy remarked after the battle of Champion Hill that his commander was either “a traitor or the most incompetent man...
No Kings
What does it say when Alex Padilla, a sitting member of the United States Senate, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration, is wrestled to the ground and handcuffed like a common criminal? Not a rapist, not a murderer, but a member of...
News From Around the South, 6/9 to 6/16
VIRGINIA: Trump Orders Virginia Army Installation Renamed Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams may be having their names removed from the signs at Fort Gregg-Adams, but the post’s commanding general has told their families that she was “committed” to...
Slouching Toward Authoritarianism
The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles is an assault on federalism, violates federal law and manifests a dangerous pattern of governmental behavior in defiance of constitutional principles and...
Book Review: Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War
While some studies on Civil War memory appeared in the early and mid-twentieth century, those associated with the beginnings of a widening scholarly emergence on this topic focused primarily on Confederate subjects, particularly the Lost Cause. Books like Gaines M....
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