The Hidden Story Behind the North’s Civil War Victory
WAYS AND MEANS Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War By Roger Lowenstein War, it has been said, is the midwife of revolution, an adage that certainly applies to the American Civil War. That conflict not only destroyed slavery, the foundation of...
U.S. Policy: Cheer Ukrainians On And Keep Us Out
After Friday’s NATO summit refused to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the allies’ failure to “close the skies” to Russian military aircraft gives “a green light for further bombing of Ukrainian...
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GEORGIA: Cannon From Revolutionary War Raised From Savannah Harbor They have lain deep under the water for more than 200 years. Now a dozen cannon believed to date from the American Revolutionary War have been raised in Savannah, Georgia. Each 5-ft long, the cannon...
The Freedom To Hate
“Now, hatred is by far The longest pleasure; Men love in haste But they detest at leisure.” — Lord Byron (1788-1824) Last week in a federal courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia, the government of the United States of America successfully concluded a criminal...
David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature
In a pivotal scene in the 1989 film Glory, the story’s hero, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, confronts his commanding officer, Colonel James Montgomery, who has ordered his black soldiers to sack and burn an undefended Confederate village. Matthew Broderick’s Shaw and his...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘Once in a lifetime opportunity’: Spartanburg Revolutionary War flag acquired by library SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A significant piece of local and American history – one no Read More