In December 1863, rumors abounded that John C. Breckinridge, Southern Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1860, traitor, and Confederate general, had died. The New York Times was not sad: If it
So this is happening in Florida: The plans for a Union monument at the Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park — about 46 miles west of Jacksonville, Fla. — began several years ago. The id
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 was pretty ugly, and emotionally, i
Just in case you get into any causes of the Civil War discussion during Sunday barbecue with the in-laws or something. Here’s E.S. Dargan’s speech at the Alabama secession convention: I fe
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 to its usual bad economics and bad p
As we close another Decoration Day, we have David Blight with typically excellent stories about Civil War memory: But for the earliest and most remarkable Memorial Day, we must return to where the war
On the nose… America’s leading Islamic organization took to the airwaves today in outrage after a local news station confirmed rumors that the deceased Boston Marathon bomber had accidentally
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