This is the grave of Charles Sumner. Born in Boston in 1811, Sumner's family were strong abolitionists and of course their son picked this up with passion. He graduated from Harvard in 1830 and entered the law in 1834. He traveled in Europe for a...
Civil War
This is the grave of John C. Breckinridge. The traitor Breckinridge was born in 1821 on his slaveholding family's plantation. His grandfather was Attorney General under Thomas Jefferson and although.
This is the grave of Clement Vallandigham. One of the most unknown yet important villains in American history, Vallandigham was born in 1820 in New Lisbon, Ohio and became involved.
It's a little hard to fathom today, but for many decades, Los Angeles was an unbelievably conservative city. Of course it was the home of Nixon and Reagan. In 1910, unionists bombed the Los Angeles Times because it was so anti-union. But the city's right-wing...
With Trump trying to erase transgendered people from any public function in the United States, it's worth remembering that among the many, many, many, many people in American history braver.
This is the grave of Matthew Brady. Probably born in 1822 in New York (there is a bit of conflicting testimony about both facts, with some believing he was born.
This is the grave of Phil Sheridan. Born in 1831 in Albany, New York, Sheridan's family moved to Ohio when he was young. He was a very lucky young man. He worked as a bookkeeper as a teenager but got to know his local congressman,...
On June 17, 1864, the Washington Arsenal exploded in Washington, D.C, killing around 20 workers. This tragic event highlighted the growing dangers of the American workplace and the indifference to.
A journalist called up David Blight, one of the greatest living historians of the Civil War, and asked him what he thought of Trump's Andrew Jackson comments. Blight clearly hadn't.
The neo-Confederates are outraged that New Orleans is being meant to poor ol' white Southerners who bask in the glory of 4 years of treason and hundreds of years of racial repression on both sides of that treason. Here's a Republican candidate for governor from...
Good on New Orleans. New Orleans removed the first of four designated Confederate monuments Monday as workers toiled in the dark of night to bring down the Liberty Monument, which.
The history of Jews in the Civil War isn't nearly so secret as this essay suggests, but it's still a good discussion of a part of.