Kevin Levin with an excellent short essay on the evolving relationship between the South and the Confederate flag, where he notes both the connection between the Stars and Bars and resistance to segregation and that the South has become increasingly less tolerant of displaying the...
Treason in Defense of Slavery
On December 24, 1861, the first anniversary of South Carolina's secession from the Union, the Palmetto State celebrated. And it's not surprising because a year into their rebellion, things looked.
You read this, and you come to appreciate just how sick and twisted the "Black Confederate" claims really are: Already on edge from these neighboring rumblings, large fires in Natchez.
This Disunion piece on John C. Breckinridge was somewhat more charitable than I would have been for a man who more than almost anyone embraced committing treason to defend slavery. I thought there was nothing, nothing at all that could redeem the man in my...
Yglesias on Reihan Salam's claim that white conservatives aren't racist, but rather simply nostalgic about an American that has largely ended: On its face it’s difficult to make sense of.
Like Veteran's Day, Memorial Day has now lost its original meaning. I'm generally against detaching remembrance holidays from the wars that generated them, because generalizing does damage to the experience.
This is unacceptable: Specialty license plates can be seen all over Kentucky, from Nature's Finest, to the Masonic Order, to Transylvania University. Many want to show their support for things they care about and the non-profit organization, Sons of Confederate Veterans, is no different. The...
Excellent, detailed post on the role of slavery in the Confederate Army. One of the great unmentioned tragedies of the Civil War was the conscription of poor Southern whites into.
See Loomis on Robert E. Lee. Also worth quoting: The conventional wisdom holds, for example, that Lee disdained secession, but once his state took that step he was duty bound.
Loomis: 150 years ago today, South Carolina declared treason to defend slavery, seceding from the Union in order to preserve its ability to own, sell, rape, and murder black people. 4 1/2 years later and 500,000 dead Americans later, this treason was crushed. But of...
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LizardBreath on the upcoming celebrations of treason in defense of slavery that are trying to leave out the slavery part: I think what gets to me is the Orwellian nature.