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Joe Wolverton

Grant a Better General Than Lee? No.

By Joe Wolverton

A review of Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian (Regnery History, 2012) by Edward Bonekemper, III. I don’t think a person of sound mind and impartial understanding of the so-called Civil War could… »

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  • Joe Wolverton
  • Robert E. Lee
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Make America States Again

By Joe Wolverton

I am honored to speak at the graduation from high school of these young men and women who were once my students and who are now my friends. We’ve grown so close, in fact, I’ve… »

  • Federalism
  • James Madison
  • Joe Wolverton
  • Patrick Henry
  • Southern Founders

A Little Whiskey Rebellion

By Joe Wolverton

“I plainly perceive that the time will come when a shirt shall not be washed without an excise.”— Representative James Jackson of Georgia, speech against the Whiskey Tax delivered on January 5, 1791 in the… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • George Washington
  • Joe Wolverton
  • Whiskey Rebellion

Republicans Knew Where Their Brot Was Buttered In 1860

By Joe Wolverton

A Review of The Election of 1860: “A Campaign Fraught with Consequences” by Michael F. Holt (University Press of Kansas, 2017). Chapter One of Michael F. Holt’s contribution to the corpulent body of work covering… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Book Review
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  • Joe Wolverton
  • Michael Holt
  • Republican Party
  • The Election of 1860

First Amendment Establishment

By Joe Wolverton

The Phoenix, Arizona city council has been forced by self-declared “Satanists” to cease opening its meetings with prayer. The Arizona Republic reports the details of the events leading to this decision: “Followers of the Satanic… »

  • Bill of Rights
  • James Madison
  • Joe Wolverton
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • United States Constitution

Knights of the Golden Circle

By Joe Wolverton

A review of Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War by David C. Keehn (LSU, 2013). “Maybe,” “Likely,” “It seems that.” Those are hardly the words of an author certain of… »

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  • Copperheads
  • Featured
  • Joe Wolverton
  • Secession

Spencer Roane

By Joe Wolverton

“It has been our happiness to believe, that in the partition of powers between the general and State governments, the former possessed only such as were expressly granted, or passed therewith as necessary incidents, while… »

  • Joe Wolverton
  • Old Republicans
  • Richmond Junto
  • Spencer Roane
  • United States Constitution

The Midnight Ride that Saved Jefferson and Henry

By Joe Wolverton

Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of — Jack Jouett? Jouett’s mission, like that of his more famous fellow horseman, was to warn American patriots of the approaching attack by… »

  • Jack Jouett
  • Joe Wolverton
  • Patrick Henry
  • Southern Founding
  • Thomas Jefferson

Remembering St. George Tucker

By Joe Wolverton

Washington, Adams, Madison, Jefferson, Franklin. All of these Founding Fathers are well known and need no first names. Tucker, however, that’s a surname of a member of the Founding Generation that isn’t familiar at all… »

  • Joe Wolverton
  • Southern Founders
  • St. George Tucker

James Madison: Son of Virginia

By Joe Wolverton

A Review  James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation by Jeff Broadwater (University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Speaking at the celebration of the completion of the restoration of Montpelier,… »

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