So this is happening in Florida: The plans for a Union monument at the Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park -- about 46 miles west of Jacksonville, Fla. -- began several years ago. The idea was to commemorate the Union regiments that fought at Olustee (pronounced...
Treason in Defense of Slavery
The fact that Jefferson Davis played a role in giving the Civil War its name and that the name is a product of the losers writing the history of a.
I rather like this Lt. Col. Robert Bateman fellow who is blogging at Charles Pierce's place: A little more than a decade ago I was going through a divorce. It.
Just in case you get into any causes of the Civil War discussion during Sunday barbecue with the in-laws or something. Here's E.S. Dargan's speech at the Alabama secession convention: I feel impelled, Mr. President, to vote for this Ordinance by an overruling necessity. Years...
The Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 29, 1863, arguing that God would not allow the South to become like Mexico: The convulsion which is to cause a permanent disruption of the.
Forbes is a terrible magazine in general, but now that it is reviving the idea that the tariff was the real reason for the Civil War, it's adding bad history.
As we close another Decoration Day, we have David Blight with typically excellent stories about Civil War memory: But for the earliest and most remarkable Memorial Day, we must return to where the war began. By the spring of 1865, after a long siege and...
Today, being Decoration Day, we remember the crushing of the slave-owning Confederacy by our brave pro-Union soldiers during the Civil War. Jamie Malanowski takes the opportunity to ask an important.
On the nose... America’s leading Islamic organization took to the airwaves today in outrage after a local news station confirmed rumors that the deceased Boston Marathon bomber had accidentally been.
Circumstances in which naming your new business after Jefferson Davis are appropriate? On behalf of our family at the Jefferson Davis Inn we would like to thank you for your support of the new “JDI.” Please join us for a private celebration to be held...
Barack Obama's second inaugural address: "We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides.
I had a fairly good sense of violence against white opponents of secession in Texas during the early period of the Civil War, including the massacre of German settlers as.