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...
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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.
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the assault on Fort Wagner, when the African-American 54th Massachusetts so bravely tried to take the fort guarding Charleston Harbor.
In a world where Rand Paul, America's greatest defender of civil liberties, not only employs a key adviser with a sideline as the "Southern Avenger" but defends it as a youthful discretion like smoking pot or making a woman worship Aqua Buddha, it is hardly...
Today is the 150th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. I'll have a Bloggingheads diavlog with Kevin Levin up shortly; until then... Five lessons from Gettysburg.
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.
When we think of the Republican Party in its early years, we often think of it as a party of freedom because it opposed slavery. But that's way too simplistic.
Who to cheer for in this one... Georgia senators today passed a resolution calling for the correction of survey areas along the state’s northern border in a 48-2 vote, a news release states. “The Tennessee Valley Authority has identified the Tennessee River as a likely...
On February 13, 1865, the Sons of Vulcan, the first American union in iron and steel, ended its strike, leading to the first union contract in American history. The Sons.
On December 6, 1865, the legislature of Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, ending slavery. Arguably, the single most important event in the history of American labor, the.