Raised on a tobacco farm at the edge of the Chinquapin Forest in Southern Maryland,…
J.L. BennettAugust 8, 2022
“My shirt is ragged and my pants are tore. I ain’t found nothin’ I’m a-looking…
J.L. BennettDecember 3, 2021
The delegates who gathered in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, presumptuously shelving that…
J.L. BennettOctober 22, 2021
“Very late in the war, when defeat seemed inevitable, Northern generals were complaining that the…
J.L. BennettJuly 1, 2020
Not that long ago, it seems, Congressional Democrats were calling the Constitution an outdated impediment…
J.L. BennettJanuary 10, 2020
“Fatti Maschii Parole Femine”1 In July of 1861, Union troops aboard the Chesapeake Bay steamer…
J.L. BennettMarch 28, 2019
Right wing radio personalities need no excuse to engage in South-bashing, but the recent events…
J.L. BennettFebruary 27, 2019
As the 2018 legislative session was winding down in Annapolis, the Senate passed a bill…
J.L. BennettApril 19, 2018
“If you, who represent the stronger portion, cannot agree to settle on the broad principle…
J.L. BennettMarch 28, 2017
As Baltimore is preparing to honor a coprophagic crossdresser, the city’s double-equestrian Lee-Jackson…
J.L. BennettMarch 4, 2016
As 1861 drew to a close, Governor Thomas Hicks recorded for posterity the events of…
J.L. BennettNovember 19, 2014
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