Rediscovering CSA Truce Flag

Rediscovering CSA Truce Flag

PHILADELPHIA — In a second-floor gallery at the Fabric Workshop and Museum here on Saturday, a woman used a dish towel printed with an image of the Confederate battle flag to clean a layer of dust from a section of the Declaration of Independence inscribed on the...
Understandable Outrage

Understandable Outrage

It’s hard to process what has happened in the last few days. First, President Donald Trump’s ongoing outrage over media coverage makes total sense. And I have found myself agreeing with President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff and current...
Freed Slave Doomed CSA White House

Freed Slave Doomed CSA White House

In early 1862, at the height of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis became a very paranoid man. His army was struggling against the Union, which was getting mysteriously better and better at predicting his moves. Davis suspected a mole somewhere in...