Civil War
The Detroit Daily Advertiser, late 1860/early 1861 (I do not have an exact date): "Every horse thief, murderer, gambler, robber, and other rogue of high and low degree, fled to.
If you haven't read Ta-Nehisi Coates' piece on why African-Americans avoid centering the Civil War in their history, why the Civil War is so associated with whites in public memory,.
Count me as one who is quite glad that William Tecumseh Sherman sufficiently recovered from his severe depression to burn Georgia and South Carolina.
Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic, not only one of my favorite books about the Civil War, but one of my favorite non-fiction books ever, has recently published.
Why do I not find it the least bit surprising that the "Tigers" in the LSU Tigers is not named for the animal but for the Louisiana Tigers, a notoriously.
Allow me to share Mark Greenbaum's outrage over Chadwick Matlin's poorly thought out and virtually unexplained list of the worst Congresses in U.S. history, ending with the "inarguably-awful 37th," which.
I find this paper interesting for a different reason than Matt does; namely, that it's a classic example of "drawing inferences far beyond what your data can actually support." Even.
Interesting. At my junior high (the illustrious Moss Junior High School), US history paid a bit of attention to strategic issues in the Mexican-American War, a bit of attention to.