War as Pop Culture
War has a way of becoming romanticized. For each year that we remove ourselves from a conflict, it becomes something more and more glossed over and immortal. Iconic images from the past mix with our pop culture of today in a way that makes the war something noble (in...
California's Civil War
LOS ANGELES — ABOUT 15 years ago, Ron Hyde was thumbing through a Civil War magazine when he came across an advertisement for a museum called Drum Barracks. “The ad said it was located in Wilmington, Calif.,” said Mr. Hyde, who lives in Norco, about 50 miles...
Surveying Emancipation
President Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863 lent new urgency to the question of “what shall we do with the Negroes.” What had been only a possibility a few months before — the freeing of more than 3 million slaves still behind...
Was Civil War About Slavery?
In the course of our conversation, Yacine Kout mentioned something else—an incident that had happened the previous spring at Eastern Randolph High School just outside Asheboro. On Cinco de Mayo, the annual celebration of Mexico’s defeat of French forces at the Battle...Obiter Dicta
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is not qualified to be the attorney general of the United States because he has Read More
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