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The Real Cause

By W. Kirk Wood

A review of For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (Oxford, 1997) by James McPherson Miss Emma Holmes of Charleston, SC, and a survivor of the War Between the States, has… »

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  • James McPherson
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  • War for Southern Independence

Many Thousands Gone

By W. Kirk Wood

A review of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Harvard, 1998) by Ira Berlin For an understanding of the Atlantic-African slave trades and the origins of the peculiar institution… »

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  • Ira Berlin
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Calhoun, Not Webster, Was Right

By W. Kirk Wood

Writing about the “Great Triumvirate” of Webster, Clay, and Calhoun during the third Nullification controversy in America of 1828-1832, and in particular about the Webster-Hayne debate of 1830, the late Prof. Merrill D. Peterson made… »

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Founding Intentions

By W. Kirk Wood

A review of Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution by M.E. Bradford (Georgia, 1993). Since the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, numberless books re-examining the document and the convention… »

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“Get Past Race and Fix Current Problems:” A Reply

By W. Kirk Wood

South Carolina State Senator Katrina Frye Shealy recently declared that the state should “get past race and fix current problems.”   Dr. W. Kirk Wood, Professor History Emeritus at Alabama State University, wrote this in reply.… »

  • Political Correctness
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The Political Wisdom of John Taylor of Caroline

By W. Kirk Wood

In honor of John Taylor’s birthday, December 19. From Tyranny Unmasked: “The rival remedy for our troubles, so insignificant in the eyes of the Committee as to be wholly suppressed, although it has been often enforced… »

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  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Republicanism
  • State's Rights
  • United States Constitution
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John Taylor of Caroline on Debt

By W. Kirk Wood

From Tyranny Unmasked: The Committee inform [sic] us ‘that the true economy of individuals, is to earn more than they spend; het this is said to be bad policy for a nation. The first assertion… »

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