Civil War Produced Only Female CMOH
Mary Edwards Walker was no stranger to sneaking across enemy lines. When she wasn’t acting as a surgeon to tend to the Union wounded, she would sometimes enter Confederate territory — with armed escort and two pistols in her saddlebags — to deliver supplies to their...
2020 Prediction: Wild and Wooly
The 2020 presidential race is off and running. As the sitting president, Donald Trump is almost certain to win the Republican nomination. Historically, this would mean that Trump would ignore the Democratic primary while building on his status as president. But we all...
Venezuela and the Myth of Kinder, Gentler Socialism
Venezuela is a socialist country. Venezuela is also a dictatorship. Currently, Venezuela has fallen into open violence and complete chaos, with the strongman Nicolas Maduro ordering troops to open fire on those attempting to bring humanitarian aid into the country....
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ALABAMA: Judge Throws Out Law Protecting Confederate Monuments For more than a century, a 52-foot obelisk has stood in the center of Birmingham, Ala., a monument to Confederate soldiers and sailors who fought in the Civil War. In 2017, amid a national reckoning on...
Review: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered
Michael Gray, who edited this new book, opens the volume with a historiography of Civil War prisons. Before 1930, while there was a post-war stream of memoirs on the Civil War prisons, there really was a lack of scholarship on the subject. That changed with the...Obiter Dicta
In the course of his losing race with the teleprompter during his Oval Office address on Dec. 17, President Donald Read More
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GEORGIA: Alicia Johnson sworn in as first Black woman elected to Georgia Public Service Commission Dr. Alicia Johnson was ceremonially sworn in this week as Georgia’s newest Public Service Commissioner, Read More