The diary of Emma LeConte is one of the best known documents chronicling the sack…
Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2021
The following address was delivered as part of a symposium at the 150th anniversary of…
James Everett KiblerNovember 19, 2020
In August of 1862, two years before his infamous ‘March to the Sea’, General William…
Vann BosemanOctober 31, 2019
As the brilliant American military victory in the Persian Gulf approaches its second anniversary, the…
Jeffrey AddicottNovember 26, 2018
When you hear or read about the burning of Columbia, General Sherman’s principal target in…
Karen StokesFebruary 15, 2018
A review of Karen Stokes, A Legion of Devils: Sherman in South Carolina (Shotwell Press, 2017).…
Al BensonOctober 10, 2017
In 1864, General William T. Sherman wrote to a fellow Union officer that the “false…
Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2017
The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…
Clyde WilsonNovember 9, 2016
Some historians have suggested that General William T. Sherman's terror campaign through the deep South…
Karen StokesApril 14, 2016
From time to time an unsuspecting tourist visiting the ruins of the Old Sheldon Church…
Gail JarvisMarch 22, 2016
William T. Sherman viewed Southerners as he later viewed American Indians, to be exterminated or…
Bernard ThuersamMarch 21, 2016
In American higher education of the past forty years, I have observed two American histories,…
David AikenMarch 3, 2015
The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2015
The American Enterprise magazine, a slick-paper, coffee-table arm of the neocon publishing empire, has recognized…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 11, 2015
By mid- January 1865, General Sherman’s campaign in South Carolina had begun in earnest. Some…
Karen StokesJanuary 30, 2015
January 2015 ushers in the last year of the sesquicentennial of the War for Southern…
Karen StokesJanuary 7, 2015
The kind of military onslaught that Union Gen. William Sherman unleashed on the South, beginning…
Kirkpatrick SaleJanuary 5, 2015
“The amount of plundering, burning, and stealing done by our own army makes me ashamed…
James Rutledge RoeschNovember 18, 2014
During the War Between the States, thousands of Americans were incarcerated for political reasons in…
Karen StokesOctober 7, 2014
One of the greatest men in American history was born on this date (July 13)…
Clyde WilsonJuly 14, 2014
I regularly get bulk e-mails from a website called Clash Daily, which is run by…
Dan E. PhillipsJune 2, 2014
When I was a child growing up in Kirkwood Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, I…
David AikenMay 8, 2014
On April 24, 1863—-just three months after the cruel and retaliatory Emancipation Proclamation--Lincoln issued an…
Kirkpatrick SaleApril 8, 2014
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