Black slaves toiling in the fields of large plantations, gentlemen in frock coats and ladies…
John MarquardtJune 14, 2022
A line from Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” In the case of the great…
John MarquardtApril 12, 2022
In most minds today, the word segregation and the term “Jim Crow” immediately evoke a…
John MarquardtMarch 18, 2022
As far back as the days of ancient Greece and Rome, people have dreamed of…
John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2022
There once were more than fifteen hundred Confederate memorials, including over seven hundred major monuments and statues,…
John MarquardtJanuary 10, 2022
In the warped minds of today’s so-called “woke,” even such an evocative holiday song as…
John MarquardtDecember 9, 2021
As in the practice of lingchi, the ancient Chinese form of slow and painful execution…
John MarquardtNovember 16, 2021
Biblical history tells us that Abrahamic monotheism, the foundation of not only Judaism but Christianity…
John MarquardtSeptember 9, 2021
The Ten Commandments of the Old Testament (Exodus 20:2-17) are the creed of both Christians…
John MarquardtAugust 9, 2021
The date of the latest federal holiday, June 19th, was touted as the one marking…
John MarquardtJuly 14, 2021
While the current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has also wreaked havoc throughout the South, there was…
John MarquardtJune 24, 2021
Over half a century before the Imperial German Navy launched its new and deadly method…
John MarquardtMay 13, 2021
During the past half century, there has been an ever-increasing tide of derogatory comments about…
John MarquardtApril 14, 2021
Many today feel that true Southerners living in the eleven States of the former Confederacy…
John MarquardtMarch 24, 2021
The principal character in Joyce Maynard’s 1992 novel “To Die For” said that if you…
John MarquardtFebruary 25, 2021
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1851 phantasmagorical image of slave life in the South has long been…
John MarquardtJanuary 13, 2021
The dramatic events leading up to the secession of the Southern States, the tragedy of…
John MarquardtDecember 7, 2020
The roots of the myth that slavery was primarily a white Southern institution were planted…
John MarquardtNovember 13, 2020
In George Orwell’s novel “1984,” the central governmental agency in his fictitious country of Oceania…
John MarquardtOctober 12, 2020
The tiny hamlet of Lake Hill in New York State’s Catskill Mountains was my mother’s…
John MarquardtSeptember 14, 2020
Today we are besieged with raucous cries on both America’s streets and its social media…
John MarquardtAugust 7, 2020
The dogs of racial war were released this May in Minneapolis by the senseless death…
John MarquardtJuly 17, 2020
Today, as it was a hundred and sixty years ago, America stands on the edge…
John MarquardtJune 23, 2020
A Japanese neighbor of ours in Tokyo, a former university professor, has written a number…
John MarquardtJune 5, 2020
Literature, be it works of fact or fiction, might well be described as a window…
John MarquardtApril 8, 2020
Just as the Earth revolves on its axis each day and travels around the Sun…
John MarquardtMarch 13, 2020
It was Thursday, Christmas day of 1862, and the guns at Fredericksburg had fallen silent…
John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2020
If one bothered to turn back the pages of history it should become quite evident…
John MarquardtJanuary 8, 2020
There are few Southern hearts that still fail to skip a beat or two when…
John MarquardtDecember 13, 2019
There are really only two basic opinions when it comes to the world’s largest carving…
John MarquardtNovember 11, 2019
Just before Christmas of 1860, the chain of events that was to soon to lead…
John MarquardtOctober 23, 2019
A book condemning the left-wing bias of one of the most widely read and educationally…
John MarquardtSeptember 26, 2019
In his recent book, Call Sign Chaos : Learning To Lead, former Secretary of Defense…
John MarquardtSeptember 11, 2019
When most Americans hear the word slavery today, their minds instantly conjure up only images…
John MarquardtAugust 22, 2019
Following the senseless racial murders at a Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015, Hollywood’s moonshining…
John MarquardtJuly 26, 2018
There are neither Confederate monuments to be torn down in Japan nor Battle Flags to…
John MarquardtJune 20, 2018
When the majority of people think of the Ku Klux Klan, there undoubtedly comes to…
John MarquardtMay 24, 2018
When the Pacific phase of World War Two began in December of 1941, Great Britain’s…
John MarquardtApril 23, 2018
It was Tuesday evening, September 16th, and people all across America were settling down for…
John MarquardtApril 5, 2018
The complex issues which have and continue to divide America’s North and South have a…
John MarquardtMarch 16, 2018
Once upon a time in America, in a far different and far more gentle age,…
John MarquardtFebruary 5, 2018
Advance the flag of Dixie For Dixie’s land we take our stand To live or…
John MarquardtJanuary 10, 2018
There is an old saying in the theater that when one is acting the part…
John MarquardtDecember 4, 2017
We hear endless accounts today concerning the dire effects of global climate change, as well…
John MarquardtNovember 10, 2017
Russian-American relations over the past two and a half centuries, like the weather in Alaska,…
John MarquardtOctober 16, 2017
The gentle wave of what had been termed “monumania” that rolled over the South and…
John MarquardtSeptember 11, 2017
During the past few decades, there has been an ever-growing sentiment throughout the Unites Sates…
John MarquardtAugust 24, 2017
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Second…
John MarquardtJanuary 5, 2017
It is generally thought that when the earliest Homo sapiens arrived on the scene in Africa…
John MarquardtDecember 9, 2016
Rumblings of open rebellion were in the air . . . a certain group within…
John MarquardtNovember 14, 2016
On the 21st of this June, Americans celebrated the 228th anniversary of the nation’s Constitution,…
John MarquardtOctober 13, 2016
Over the years, countless thousands the New Yorkers have passed by monuments in their city…
John MarquardtApril 22, 2016
The origin of the elephant as a symbol of the Republican Party occurred in 1874…
John MarquardtFebruary 9, 2016
Illinois has been known as the “Land of Lincoln” for the past sixty years .…
John MarquardtDecember 18, 2015
A century prior to the War Between the States, a German magazine writer, pseudo-scientist and…
John MarquardtNovember 23, 2015
“Cotton isn’t king in the South anymore … Kudzu is king!” Channing Cole, Atlanta…
John MarquardtNovember 5, 2015
Criss-crossing the South, from Virginia and Maryland to Texas, and from Missouri and Tennessee to…
John MarquardtOctober 9, 2015
At the Battle of San Jacinto in April of 1836, the badly outnumbered Texas forces…
John MarquardtSeptember 28, 2015
When William Faulkner visited Japan in 1955 to attend a literary symposium in Nagano, he…
John MarquardtAugust 27, 2015
With all due apologies to Samuel Clemens, I like to think of myself as a…
John MarquardtAugust 17, 2015
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