Yoni Applebaum has an interesting piece on the popularity of reenacting the U.S. Civil War in Germany. While one might poo-poo any real analysis of this as being just Gone with the Wind romanticism without any political meaning, I'd be skeptical to agree. As one...
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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.
I'm voting for George Thomas.
The only thing that's surprising about Bob McDonnell's lionization of Virginia's Confederate heritage is the ferocity of the reaction. Here at LGM we've been beating the Treason-in-Defense of Slavery Heritage.
I dunno; I'm as contemptuous of the antebellum American South as anyone, but I'm still not convinced that John Brown deserves a pardon. You can be sympathetic with Brown's ends,.
Fascinating front page of the Atlanta Constitution from July 4, 1905. Lead story was not Independence Day, and in fact I can't find a single reference to the holiday on the page; either it was not the practice at the time, or.... you know. It's...
Oregon State represents Christianity, capitalism, and tradition. Oregon represents the creeping evils of secularism, miscegenation, and gay marriage.Go Ducks!!!!!
Let me second Jason Sigger's shredding of Glenn Greenwald's handwringing regarding the assignment of a Brigade Combat Team to NORTHCOM, the combatant command responsible for the continental United States. Jason.
My wife asked the other day why I seemed so interested recently in the self-evident absurdity of "Black Confederates." The short, pragmatic answer is that I'm teaching a course on the US Civil War era this fall, and I plan to spend no small amount...
You'll all be stunned to learn that the Sons of Confederate Veterans have laid claim to the grave of another selfless bondsman who loved his master so very much that.
Drew Gilpin Faust's Republic of Suffering is about memory and the Civil War, but not in the conventionally understood fashion. Although Faust writes a bit about the memory of the.