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James Rutledge Roesch

Bust Hell Wide Open

By James Rutledge Roesch

A review of Bust Hell Wide Open: the Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., Regnery History, 2016. Writing a biography about Nathan Bedford Forrest – a man recognized by no less… »

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The Forgotten History of the Confederate Flag

By James Rutledge Roesch

The Confederate battle flag is, as John Coski of the Museum of the Confederacy titled his book on the subject, “America’s most embattled emblem.” Recent polls show that Americans are split down the middle on… »

  • Confederate Flag
  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • Southern History
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This is Mosby

By James Rutledge Roesch

V.P. Hughes, A Thousand Points of Truth: The History and Humanity of Colonel John Singleton Mosby in Newsprint (XLIBRIS, 2016). Given command over a semi-independent unit of partisan rangers in the Army of Northern Virginia,… »

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  • John Singleton Mosby
  • Valerie Protopapas
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The Tariff and Other Tales from Alabama

By James Rutledge Roesch

My friends, there is one issue before you, and to all sensible men but one issue, and but two sides to that issue. The slavery question is but one of the symbols of that issue;… »

  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Secession
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  • War for Southern Independence

The Cause of Jackson is the Cause of Us All

By James Rutledge Roesch

Old Hickory has been chopped off the front of the twenty-dollar bill. Andrew Jackson will still appear on the back of the bill, but Harriet Tubman (freed slave, conductor on the mostly mythical Underground Railroad,… »

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Confederate Emancipation

By James Rutledge Roesch

The following is a transcription of a speech given at the inaugural Education Conference of the Alabama Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans:  ‘The best men of the South have long desired to do… »

  • Emancipation
  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Patrick Cleburne
  • Robert E. Lee
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Andrew Jackson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By James Rutledge Roesch

‘If only I can restore to our institutions their primitive simplicity and purity, can only succeed in banishing those extraneous corrupting influences which tend to fasten monopoly and aristocracy on the Constitution and to make… »

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  • Daniel Webster
  • Henry Clay
  • James Rutledge Roesch
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  • Nullification
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Robert B. Rhett: Liberty Protected by Law

By James Rutledge Roesch

“The one great principle, which produced our secession from the United States – was constitutional liberty – liberty protected by law. For this, we have fought; for this, our people have died. To preserve and… »

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  • Nullification
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Randolph of Roanoke and the War Party, 1806-2015

By James Rutledge Roesch

Few who encounter John Randolph of Roanoke in the pages of American history ever forget that inimitable, irrepressible figure. Randolph, a son of one of the “First Families” of Virginia, was the passionate, principled champion… »

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  • Southern History
  • War of 1812

John C. Calhoun and “State’s Rights”

By James Rutledge Roesch

  The following is an abridged version of a chapter which will appear in the forthcoming, From Founding Fathers to Fire-Eaters: The Constitutional Doctrine of States’ Rights in the Old South  “Union among ourselves is… »

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  • John C. Calhoun
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