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The “First Shot” Revisited

By Valerie Protopapas

We have been told that the first shot fired in the “Civil War” was fired by the Confederacy at Fort Sumter in response to the Lincoln government’s attempt to rearm and re-supply that federal installation.… »

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Crimes Against Humanity

By Valerie Protopapas

It is time to consider the crimes committed against Southern prisoners of war by their federal captors. In 1903, Adj. Gen. F. C. Ainsworth estimated that more than 30,000 Union and 26,000 Confederates died in… »

  • Andersonville
  • Camp Douglas
  • Elmira Prison
  • Fort Delaware
  • Northern Studies
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The Death of the Museum of the Confederacy

By Valerie Protopapas

In May of 2008, I became embroiled in a situation that had developed with the former Museum of the Confederacy. Having received an e-mail sent to the membership from Director S. Waite Rawls asking for… »

  • Confederate Symbols
  • Museum of the Confederacy
  • Political Correctness
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The Elephant in the Room

By Valerie Protopapas

There are very few human symbols that find absolute approval or, in the alternative, disapproval. Symbols are called that because they represent something far larger than themselves. An unknown symbol is an oxymoron. At present,… »

  • Confederate Flag
  • Confederate Monuments
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Political Correctness
  • Valerie Protopapas

It Began With A Lie

By Valerie Protopapas

“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Valerie Protopapas
  • War for Southern Independence

A Simple Explanation

By Valerie Protopapas

What separated the Jeffersonian understanding of government embraced by the South from the philosophy of Lincoln and the people of the North? For if Lincoln had believed as Jefferson, the war would not have happened.… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Secession
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Valerie Protopapas
  • War for Southern Independence

To the Smithsonian…

By Valerie Protopapas

When one grows old one tends to resent wasting time and there is nothing that wastes time quite so much as efforts to counter the claims and assertions surrounding the American “Civil War” Of course,… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Symbols
  • Valerie Protopapas
  • War for Southern Indpendence

Do Motives Matter?

By Valerie Protopapas

A friend of mine is translating a book on Lincoln written by Karl Marx. Her first installment was a refutation by Marx of the European press’s contention that the assault by the North on the… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Secession
  • Valerie Protopapas

Defend to the Death

By Valerie Protopapas

When I was young, there was a very famous and much articulated saying, to wit: “I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it!” Everyone—or… »

  • Civil Liberties
  • Political Correctness
  • Valerie Protopapas

The Men Who Destroyed Western Civilization

By Valerie Protopapas

Whatever happened to Western civilization? Somehow, Christians have lost ground in every cultural area of leadership and influence in Europe and America since 1700. This is an indubitable fact. The remaining Christians search for an… »

  • Benjamin M. Palmer
  • Southern Religion
  • Valerie Protopapas
  • Western Civilization

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