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“Texas, we are bigger than Kansas, We Live Free Like Mad Max or Die Stupid”
By Patrick Andendall:The History of TexasTexas’ State Board of Education has approved new history textbooks, capping months of outcry over lessons that some academics say exaggerate the influence of...
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Cartoon: Burnings and Bushes
Click image for larger view.Two things this week. First, an image about the self-congratulatory nature of the Confederate flag coming down in South Carolina and moving to the state's Confederate Relic...
View ArticleBlack Pastor Says That The Confederates Were Biblically and Constitutionally...
How low can conservatives go? How racist can they get? And what’s more, two black pastors?!? Watch the whole video and see what moral depravity is.James Manning:And just as bad: Jesse Lee Peterson:
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Open thread for night owls: 'The frightful atrocities of slaveholding must be...
Christopher Dickey:In January 1854, just a few weeks after Robert Bunch and his new wife arrived in Charleston, he wrote a private letter to a colleague at the Foreign Office that summed up not only...
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A Heritage of Losers, Not Hate
Can someone please infiltrate the next Confederate Rag Rally and distribute or wave a bunch of these 'truth' flags around? They reject an association with hate, but how about a heritage of Losing the...
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America Still Bears the Scars from the War for Southern Oppression
150 years ago this year, the war of Southern Oppression, often referred to as the Civil War, ended. The pitched battles and dividing lines helped shape a nation that believed that human beings are not...
View ArticleA confederate flag controversy in ... Albuquerque?
Flying high above Albuquerque's historic Old Town Plaza are five flags that represent the city's five governing entities since it was founded in 1706. They are the flags of the State of New Mexico, the...
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The Holocaust, slavery, and the Republicans’ routinely repulsive rhetoric
In the course of American and world history, slavery and the Holocaust are sui generis cataclysms. Any comparisons—especially casual ones—to the Nazi genocide of European Jewry and the bondage and...
View ArticleThe Civil War Was Lost. It's Time We Finally Won It.
In the wake of the Charleston church massacre, many complained that the national conversation got side-tracked into a debate over a mere historical artifact -- the Confederate Flag -- when it should...
View ArticleJefferson Davis Statue Will Stay In Kentucky State Capital
Seems that Jefferson Davis will retain his place of "honor" in the Kentucky state capital in Frankfort.The Kentucky Historic Properties Advisory Commission voted 7-2 on Wednesday to retain the statue...
View ArticleThe Undeclared Civil War
We might have once thought of conservatives as hard-tack mid-westerners, or old-time New Englanders, but politicians saw the unrepentant Confederacy with opportunistic eyes and now the South has quite...
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Letter from former slave to former slave master is powerful, hilarious, and...
New York Daily Tribune., August 22, 1865 On August 22, 1865, the New York Daily Tribune published a letter purportedly from a former slave to his former slave master. The context of the letter seems to...
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Head of Dept. of History at West Point destroys argument that Civil War...
Colonel Ty Seidule is professor and Head of the Department of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In a five minute video, he destroys the Civil War revisionist argument that...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: The Confederate Cemetery in Ohio
Camp Chase, just outside of Columbus OH, was used as a training camp and transfer center for the Union Army during the Civil War. As the war progressed it was turned into a POW camp for captured...
View ArticleThe Need to Take Down the Albert Pike National Monument in Judiciary Square,...
The horrendous serial gun shooting massacre at Emmanuel African Methodist Church was done according to the alleged "Manchurian Candidate" Dylann Storm Roof in Charleston, SC. in order to start a second...
View ArticleCamp Chase: The Confederate Prisoners in Ohio
When the Civil War began in 1861, both sides thought it would be over quickly. Instead, it dragged on for four long and bloody years. And one of the difficulties faced by both armies was what to do...
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Ohio high school bans confederate flags from vehicles—some students need Ohio...
Failed history Kettering Fairmont High School in southern Ohio came into the news when students and parents complained about other students—let's call them un-informed youth—who were flying Confederate...
View ArticleGOP Civil War (Fo real this time)
Anyone notice that the GOP civil war has escalated into something I have probably never seen before?Conservatives at war with GOP Establishment.Conservative Establishment vs (real) ConservativesReal...
View ArticleThe Strange Political Culture of Today's GOP
It now seems clear that the Iran deal will stand. So when Speaker of the House John Boehner declares, "Our fight to stop this bad deal, frankly, is just beginning," we confront again the strange nature...
View Article"Daisy Turner’s Kin: An African American Family Saga" book event in Boston.
I was introduced to Daisy Turner through Ken Burn's epic PBS series The Civil War. A daughter of freed slaves, at 104 she beautifully recited an 1863 poem "A Soldier's Letter", by Mary Hovey:Dear...
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