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Photo Diary: Pea Ridge Battlefield, Arkansas
From the outbreak of the Civil War, both sides had attempted to assert control over the “border states”. In Missouri, which had already been the scene of conflict between pro- and anti-slavery militias...
View ArticleInterior Secretary dedicates Civil War monument by comparing Robert E. Lee...
Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, took time away from being investigated for corruption to help dedicate Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Kentucky, as the Bluegrass State’s first national...
View ArticleThis Trumpian Horror Story Will Freak You Out
Fear, ghouls, terror. Forget it.Nothing on Halloween is more frightening than this visit to an unsuspecting Western town by a man named Trump -- a litigious narcissist who warns the town of its...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, October 2018
Workers of the World Unite, and all that: Capital, by Karl MarxIn the United States of North America every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the...
View ArticleGOP's New Jim Crow voter suppression and existential threat to US democracy
A lot of you have been writing great Blogs and diaries about Republican voter suppression tactics thus far for the 2018 mid-terms, a new Jim Crow that’s spread far outside the old South, targeting...
View ArticleColorado just became the first state to completely abolish slavery
Two years after a similar effort failed, Coloradans voted Tuesday, 65 percent to 35 percent, to become the first state in the U.S. to ban slavery and its more politely described friend, “involuntary...
View ArticleHow Absentee Ballots May Cost Democrats the Florida Contested Races, + Pierce...
The Palm Beach Post Headline asks an important question:Did missing South Florida absentee ballots turn the tide?A November 10 report by Tony Doris has this:State elections data indicate hundreds of...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Primary Sources: William Howard Russell On the Civil War...
I had never heard of William Howard Russell before reading Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South by Christopher Dickey (h/t basket and janesaunt for the book...
View ArticleConservatives pretend political realignment never happened and want their...
So, you have these conservatives who love going around telling liberals that the Democratic Party is the party of slavery and segregation, and pretend political realignment never happened.This is...
View ArticleThe Key Role of Public Opinion in the Gathering Trump War
Two years ago last Friday -- November 9, 2016, the day after Trump won the presidency -- like millions of other Americans, I felt that my country had entered into a dark and dangerous place.But I, for...
View ArticleThe Gettysburg Address turns 155 years old and means as much now as it did in...
On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln attended the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in Pennsylvania. The site itself was one of the most violent battlegrounds of the Civil War, with...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Primary Sources: William Howard Russell On the Civil War...
I'm continuing with William Howard Russell's dispatches to the London Times, written as he visited the United States at the beginning of the Civil War. Before I return to his reports, I want to share...
View Article150 years later, Texas students will finally learn slavery was the central...
The Texas State Board of Education has decided finally, after a little over 150 years, to teach that slavery and the fight over whether to maintain the cruel system or abolish it were at the heart of...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Primary Sources: William Howard Russell on the Civil War...
Reading the last four letters reprinted by Project Gutenberg (The Civil War in America, by William Howard Russell) was a soul-draining, but necessary, reminder that this is indeed who we are. What...
View ArticleSenate Republican warns of civil war if Democrats continue supporting the...
It never fails that the party responsible for divisive rhetoric and violence as a matter of course always threatens violence against other Americans because Democrats were successful in an election....
View ArticlePicks of the Week: Our favorite stories from the Daily Kos Community
Welp. George H. W. Bush died this week. among many, many other things that happened, but his death (and the consequent tribute and pillory of him) dominated most of the news since last I popped into...
View Article“Brave Confederates”
“Brave Confederates”First of all, troops in the Civil War spent a fair amount of time running forward with a bayonetted rifle at a bunch of other guys in a trench all shooting at them. I’m not sure...
View ArticleDavid Blight Explains How the Wisdom of Frederick Douglass Can Help Save...
After spending a short tenure as one of the front page writers here I moved over to Salon where, for the most part, I write exclusively. I also host a podcast which has become a type of informal “Trump...
View ArticleBlue Walls
I turn 50 this year, and I spend a lot of time imagining my daughter’s America, the one I probably won’t live to see. My health is okay but I don’t expect to see 2050 and I wonder what it will look...
View ArticleIn Defense of Tulsi Gabbard.
The election of 2020 is approaching us fast, and the primary season will be here before we know it. Already, the 2020 democratic field has a few challengers. The darling of the establishment, Elizabeth...
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