Book Review
“WE HAVE THE WAR UPON US: THE ONSET OF THE CIVIL WAR, NOVEMBER 1860-APRIL 1861” By William J. Cooper, Knopf ($30). Blaming “Inflexible” Lincoln Misleading, Wrong More than 150 years after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, historians...
News from Around the South for Week of 9/3
Alabama: Hurricane Isaac uncovers Confederate ‘mystery ship’ By Paul Conner, The Daily Caller In the latest installment of a spooky pattern of events, Hurricane Isaac uncovered a boat believed to be a Civil War blockade runner on the beaches of Gulf...
Did Northern Aggression Cause Civil War?
By James Oakes, Jacobin/salon.com On 6 November 1860, the six-year-old Republican Party elected its first president. During the tense crisis months that followed – the “secession winter” of 1860–61 – practically all observers believed that Lincoln and the Republicans...
Movie Review: ‘Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter’
If you take cheese and form it into a ball, you got yourself a cheeseball. If you take a historical figure, add a cheesy conceit and proceed to make a movie out of it, it should come as no surprise to anyone that what you get is a cheeseball of a movie. And terming...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: This Day in History: July 10, 2015: Confederate flag removed from SC State House grounds COLUMBIA, SC (WCSC) – The Confederate Battle flag was removed from the South Read More