While the national attention paid to Confederate nostalgia and its racist symbolism that helps convince people to shoot up historically black churches has faded with unfortunate rapidity, at least some.
On this, the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, it's worth considering which Confederates should have been hanged. Understanding that the Union couldn't really execute all the high ranking Confederates, Gary Brecher.
Brian Beutler with a proposal: This week provides an occasion for the U.S. government to get real about history, as April 9 is the 150th anniversary of the Union’s victory.
150 years ago today, troops under the command of William Tecumseh Sherman undertook the major portion of the burning of Atlanta. The real story around this event is quite complicated,.
President Obama is granting Lt. Alonzo Cushing, who played a critical role in repelling Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, the Medal of Honor. It's pretty amazing he didn't already have it.
Color me shocked that a "nation" based on denying people freedom as its fundamental reason to exist would move to limit the freedoms of all its citizens. But even as.
Robert E. Lee was a kind slavemaster, certainly not the type of man who represents all that was inhumane about the Confederacy: Lee married into ownership of nearly 200 slaves.
