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TENNESSEE: East Tennessee’s Civil War: Pro-Union with Divided Loyalties It was June 1861 and Tennessee was about to leave the United States to join the Confederacy. East Tennesseans didn’t want to go, and they put up a fight. Tennessee voted to join the...
Robert E. Lee Opposed Monuments
At the center of the “Unite the Right” rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville was a protest of the city’s plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee. White supremacists, neo-Nazis and others have made monuments to the Confederate commanding general a flashpoint —...
An Alternative to Tearing Statues Down
WASHINGTON — I wonder how my old pal Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan would view race relations today were he around. In 1970, he wrote a memo to his boss, then-President Richard Nixon, counseling a period of “benign neglect” for the discussion of racial...
Can GOP’s Shotgun Marriage Be Saved?
Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, 2016, Republicans awoke to learn they had won the lottery. Donald Trump had won the presidency by carrying Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. All three states had gone Democratic in the last six presidential elections. The GOP had won...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