How Antietam Changed America
It was the bloodiest day in America’s bloodiest war: September 17, 1862. Shortly after dawn, Confederate troops spied hazy blue figures emerging from a fog-enshrouded cornfield outside Sharpsburg, Maryland, and unleashed an artillery storm that mowed down dozens of...
News from Around the South 9/12-9/19
Alabama: Bedford statue still stirs controversy BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – Racist, murderer, or savior of the town? Nathan Bedford Forrest still stirs controversy in Selma, Alabama, where emotions are running high over plans to replace a monument honoring...
Book Review
The Sharpshooter 1862-1864, by Charles Phillips Charles Phillips takes his reader back to the days of the Nueces massacre, an intense and violent conflict between the Confederate soldiers and the German Texans of August of 1862 in his novel The Sharpshooter:...
Losing Your Religion
On Jan. 8, 1962, President John F. Kennedy wrote a letter celebrating the work of James Cardinal Gibbons, who died in 1921. Kennedy, who rarely discussed his Catholicism, did so while describing the Cardinal: “He nobly expresses the essential traditions of my...By any other name…
Obiter Dicta
One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. Read More
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