Triumphs of the Reconstruction
The era in United States history known as Reconstruction forms a sort of coda to the traumatic years of the American Civil War of 1861-1865. It also the ugly duckling of American history. The 12 years that are the conventional designation of the Reconstruction period,...
Forgotten Munitions Get New Spotlight
This story is more Cold Case Files than clickbait. Archaeologists really did find more than 1,000 Civil War era objects and munitions dumped into Buffalo Bayou under the Milam Street bridge. The thing is, the objects were found in the 1960s and then seemingly...
Monuments Slow to Come Down
A report released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center finds that 110 monuments and other symbols of the Confederacy publicly displayed in the United States have been removed since the summer of 2015, when a white supremacist who venerated those symbols killed...
Can President Trump Shoot Jim Comey?
Last weekend, the White House leaked a copy of a letter sent by President Donald Trump’s legal team on Jan. 29 to special counsel Robert Mueller. The letter set forth the president’s legal strategy, arguing essentially that he is immune from prosecution...Obiter Dicta
In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: With location and design selected, SC’s Robert Smalls monument needs funding The monument is expected to cost between $1 million and $2 million for the cost of the Read More