Grant’s Unique Strategy to Capture Vicksburg
While Grant was ready to strike and capture Vicksburg, it is important to understand the campaigning along the Mississippi River and in Tennessee. It was the strategic situation in the west in the spring of 1863 and Grant’s successful campaign against Vicksburg, it...
Has America’s Suez Moment Arrived?
2020 will surely qualify as an “annus horribilis” in the history of the Republic. By New Year’s, one in every 1,000 Americans, 330,000, will be dead from the worst pandemic in 100 years. The U.S. economy will have sustained a blow to rival the worst...
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Woodrow Wilson Home in Columbia Getting New Name, Mission COLUMBIA — Caretakers of Woodrow Wilson’s teenage home have changed its name in an effort to more fully capture the racially complex history surrounding America’s 28th president. The Woodrow...
Can The President Pardon Himself?
Most presidential pardons — indeed all pardons that President Donald Trump has issued — have been for specific crimes of which the subject of the pardon has already been charged and convicted. Yet, Trump, never one to be restrained by precedent, has let it be hinted...
Reconstruction National Park Adds First Community Sites
The reach of South Carolina’s Reconstruction Era National Historical Park just got a little broader. Unlike many national parks, it’s based around a period of history rather than a particular landmark or natural feature. Its address is in Beaufort County, but its...Obiter Dicta
Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Remains of teen soldier who died in Battle of Camden identified 246 years later SC Battlefield Preservation Trust helped complete Maryland teen’s story A Texas-based forensics company has Read More