Painful Choices
In most Presidential election years, the most important vote is the vote for President of the United States. This year, the most important vote looks like the vote for control of the Senate. Regardless of who wins the White House, the freedom that Americans have taken...
The Savage Civil War
Americans have a perhaps understandable tendency to romanticize the Civil War, a four-year “Iliad” that remade the nation at the cost of at least 750,000 lives. Its effects still echo through our present-day controversies over the legacy of slavery, the display of...
News From Around the South 10/31 to 11/7
VIRGINIA: Civil War History Tucked Away in Shoeboxes The opening line still hurts across the years. “Dear Mother — I am here a prisoner of war & mortally wounded.” John Winn Moseley was writing home from the Gettysburg battlefield on July 4, 1863. He was a...
The Civil War’s Unlikely Genius
History never remembers who the quartermasters were: That was Nathanael Greene’s retort when George Washington pressed on him the job of quartermaster of the Continental Army in 1778. And though Greene yielded to Washington’s plea, he was right. Despite doing a...
The Left’s Vision
The political left keeps announcing, as if it is a new breakthrough discovery of theirs, that life is unfair. Have they never read Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” more than two and a half centuries ago? What about economic...Obiter Dicta
We’ve seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their Read More
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VIRGINIA: Mobile museum bringing Virginia history across the Commonwealth CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — It is a truck on a mission to teach young students and families about Virginia history. While Read More