Blog Acknowledging the True Cost of the War Alfred Emanuel Smith (1873 – 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor…Valerie ProtopapasMay 19, 2022
Blog Triumph and Subjugation In 1935 Lyon Gardiner Tyler – descendant of 10th President John Tyler – wrote: “The…Valerie ProtopapasApril 21, 2022
Blog The Constitutionality of Secession To begin with, it is hornbook law* that the signatories to any contract or compact,…Valerie ProtopapasApril 7, 2022
Blog Who Was Francis Lieber? The opening of this essay is from my segment of the documentary Searching for Lincoln…Valerie ProtopapasFebruary 8, 2022
Blog Lincoln’s Total War Who has not heard of Wounded Knee? Most know at least the general facts surrounding…Valerie ProtopapasSeptember 28, 2021
Blog So, it was a Civil War after all… “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of…Valerie ProtopapasAugust 19, 2021
Blog Aristotle vs. Hobbes–The Cause of the Great War The "ultimate cause" of the War of Secession was two mutually exclusive understanding of government.…Valerie ProtopapasJuly 6, 2021
Blog Western Civilization-Post Scriptum I once wrote an article on the problems arising from what I termed “group condemnation.”…Valerie ProtopapasJune 8, 2021
Blog The “First Shot” Revisited We have been told that the first shot fired in the "Civil War” was fired…Valerie ProtopapasApril 12, 2021
Blog Crimes Against Humanity It is time to consider the crimes committed against Southern prisoners of war by their…Valerie ProtopapasMarch 15, 2021
Blog The Death of the Museum of the Confederacy In May of 2008, I became embroiled in a situation that had developed with the…Valerie ProtopapasFebruary 24, 2021
Blog The Elephant in the Room There are very few human symbols that find absolute approval or, in the alternative, disapproval.…Valerie ProtopapasDecember 11, 2020
Blog It Began With A Lie “Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the…Valerie ProtopapasNovember 2, 2020
Blog A Simple Explanation What separated the Jeffersonian understanding of government embraced by the South from the philosophy of…Valerie ProtopapasOctober 14, 2020
Review Posts A Thousand Points of Truth A review of A Thousand Points of Truth: The History and Humanity of Col. John…Paul GottfriedJanuary 22, 2019
Blog To the Smithsonian… When one grows old one tends to resent wasting time and there is nothing that…Valerie ProtopapasJanuary 10, 2019
Blog This is Mosby V.P. Hughes, A Thousand Points of Truth: The History and Humanity of Colonel John Singleton…James Rutledge RoeschJanuary 16, 2017
Blog Do Motives Matter? A friend of mine is translating a book on Lincoln written by Karl Marx. Her…Valerie ProtopapasJuly 25, 2016
Blog Defend to the Death When I was young, there was a very famous and much articulated saying, to wit:…Valerie ProtopapasMay 9, 2016
Blog Life In The Old Land Yet There is life in the old land of Dixie yet. There seems to be no…Clyde WilsonSeptember 16, 2015
Blog The Men Who Destroyed Western Civilization Whatever happened to Western civilization? Somehow, Christians have lost ground in every cultural area of…Valerie ProtopapasNovember 25, 2014
Blog What It All Was About In Ten Words On August 24th, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln wrote to politician and editor Henry J. Raymond…Valerie ProtopapasJuly 31, 2014
Blog When Doing Nothing is the Right Thing to Do In the present judgment of history—or at least those who are counted worthy to opine…Valerie ProtopapasApril 22, 2014
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