Civil War
The Harrisburg Patriot and Union issues an apology for its 1863 dismissal of the Gettysburg Address, which read: We pass over the silly remarks of the President. For the credit.
This 1875 map charting syphilis in the Union during the Civil War is awesome. Not sure what was going on in upstate New York, but it seems like a scary.
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.
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.
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.