On December 24, 1861, the first anniversary of South Carolina's secession from the Union, the Palmetto State celebrated. And it's not surprising because a year into their rebellion, things looked pretty good for the Confederacy. One of the great things about reading the Times Disunion...
Treason in Defense of Slavery
You read this, and you come to appreciate just how sick and twisted the "Black Confederate" claims really are: Already on edge from these neighboring rumblings, large fires in Natchez.
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..
Yglesias on Reihan Salam's claim that white conservatives aren't racist, but rather simply nostalgic about an American that has largely ended: On its face it’s difficult to make sense of that. John Boehner was born in 1949. Does he feel nostalgic for the higher marginal...
Like Veteran's Day, Memorial Day has now lost its original meaning. I'm generally against detaching remembrance holidays from the wars that generated them, because generalizing does damage to the experience.
This is unacceptable: Specialty license plates can be seen all over Kentucky, from Nature's Finest, to the Masonic Order, to Transylvania University. Many want to show their support for things.
Excellent, detailed post on the role of slavery in the Confederate Army. One of the great unmentioned tragedies of the Civil War was the conscription of poor Southern whites into a Confederate Army dedicated to the preservation of the legal regime of slavery, a regime...
See Loomis on Robert E. Lee. Also worth quoting: The conventional wisdom holds, for example, that Lee disdained secession, but once his state took that step he was duty bound.
Loomis: 150 years ago today, South Carolina declared treason to defend slavery, seceding from the Union in order to preserve its ability to own, sell, rape, and murder black people..
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LizardBreath on the upcoming celebrations of treason in defense of slavery that are trying to leave out the slavery part: I think what gets to me is the Orwellian nature.
Oh, great: A textbook distributed to Virginia fourth-graders says that thousands of African Americans fought for the South during the Civil War... Slaves were totally committed to the Confederate cause,.