Blog Bad History Masquerading as an Appeal to Peace and Piety: A Response to Allen Guelzo’s “Why We Must Forget the Lost Cause” It is a testimony to the prevalence of anti-Southern sentiment that The Gospel Coalition (TGC),…Tom HerveyMay 24, 2021
Blog A Night to Remember The diary of Emma LeConte is one of the best known documents chronicling the sack…Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2021
Blog The Great Lie and the Real Controversy The following address was delivered as part of a symposium at the 150th anniversary of…James Everett KiblerNovember 19, 2020
Blog Lee’s Brilliance and Sherman’s Folly Bevin Alexander’s “How Great Generals Win” was an intellectual watershed in my life. By applying…Aaron GleasonDecember 6, 2019
Blog How Yankees Fostered Southern Disease In August of 1862, two years before his infamous ‘March to the Sea’, General William…Vann BosemanOctober 31, 2019
Blog Operation Desert Storm: Lee or Sherman As the brilliant American military victory in the Persian Gulf approaches its second anniversary, the…Jeffrey AddicottNovember 26, 2018
Blog Northern Lies about the Burning of Columbia When you hear or read about the burning of Columbia, General Sherman’s principal target in…Karen StokesFebruary 15, 2018
Review Posts A Legion of Devils A review of Karen Stokes, A Legion of Devils: Sherman in South Carolina (Shotwell Press, 2017).…Al BensonOctober 10, 2017
Blog Union or Else In 1864, General William T. Sherman wrote to a fellow Union officer that the “false…Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2017
Blog Sherman’s March The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…Clyde WilsonNovember 9, 2016
Blog Sherman’s Army in North Carolina Some historians have suggested that General William T. Sherman's terror campaign through the deep South…Karen StokesApril 14, 2016
Review Posts The Destruction of Old Sheldon Church and Other Ravages of War From time to time an unsuspecting tourist visiting the ruins of the Old Sheldon Church…Gail JarvisMarch 22, 2016
Blog Death is Mercy to Secessionists William T. Sherman viewed Southerners as he later viewed American Indians, to be exterminated or…Bernard ThuersamMarch 21, 2016
Review Posts Southern Core Values In American higher education of the past forty years, I have observed two American histories,…David AikenMarch 3, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Sherman’s March The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The War Lover The American Enterprise magazine, a slick-paper, coffee-table arm of the neocon publishing empire, has recognized…Clyde WilsonFebruary 11, 2015
Blog The Invasion Begins By mid- January 1865, General Sherman’s campaign in South Carolina had begun in earnest. Some…Karen StokesJanuary 30, 2015
Blog The Cruel Winter of 1865 in South Carolina January 2015 ushers in the last year of the sesquicentennial of the War for Southern…Karen StokesJanuary 7, 2015
Blog The “Hard Hand of War” The kind of military onslaught that Union Gen. William Sherman unleashed on the South, beginning…Kirkpatrick SaleJanuary 5, 2015
Blog Rehabbing Sherman “The amount of plundering, burning, and stealing done by our own army makes me ashamed…James Rutledge RoeschNovember 18, 2014
Blog The Crime of William Dougherty During the War Between the States, thousands of Americans were incarcerated for political reasons in…Karen StokesOctober 7, 2014
Blog The Wizard of the Saddle One of the greatest men in American history was born on this date (July 13)…Clyde WilsonJuly 14, 2014
Blog Conservatives for War Criminals? I regularly get bulk e-mails from a website called Clash Daily, which is run by…Dan E. PhillipsJune 2, 2014
Review Posts “Monsters of Virtuous Pretension” When I was a child growing up in Kirkwood Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, I…David AikenMay 8, 2014
Review Posts Violating the Lieber Code: The March From the Sea 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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