When I started writing over here, I had planned to run a series of my best posts at Alterdestiny since no one read them at the time. In fact, that's why I had so many "Most Prominent Politician" posts when I first started--I was just...
Gilded Age
Joshua Holland on the history of how corporations became "people." During the 19th century, however, the robber barons, aided by a few corrupt jurists deep in their pockets, took the.
This Disunion piece on John C. Breckinridge was somewhat more charitable than I would have been for a man who more than almost anyone embraced committing treason to defend slavery..