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Republican Party

You Lie Down With Dogs, You Get Up With Fleas

By Paul H. Yarbrough

Sometime back in the early sixties—climaxed in 1964 with Barry Goldwater’s efforts—the South with its conservative measure, almost En Masse wanted (and needed) a place to go other than the old Democrat bastion of “Solid… »

  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Republican Party
  • Southern Politics

Pretenses

By Robert Peters

You might call it propaganda, state lies, fraud, illusions or delusions. I prefer pretenses which afford the peddler thereof and the hapless fool who buys into them just the degree of deniability so that they… »

  • Northern Studies
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  • Robert Peters
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The Grand Alliance, a.k.a. The Deep State

By Clyde Wilson

The pattern for modern American politics was set by Lincoln and his cronies in the 1850s—1870s, although it took an immense war against other Americans to make it stick.  The pattern involved making the federal… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Northern Studies
  • Republican Party

Did Republicans Bribe Voters to Elect U. S. Grant President?

By Philip Leigh

Despite his unrivaled popularity after the Civil War, Republcan Ulysses Grant won the presidency merely three years later in 1868 by a popular vote margin of only 53%-to-47%. In fact, if not for the votes… »

  • Northern Studies
  • Philip Leigh
  • Reconstruction
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  • U.S. Grant

Republican Revisionists

By Paul H. Yarbrough

There is a modern notion among the Republicans and their most vocal acolytes such as Dinesh D’Souza and Mark Levin that the Republicans are the healers and the Democrats are the racists. One political party… »

  • Dinesh D'Souza
  • Mark Levin
  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Republican Party

How Europeans Viewed the War

By Thomas DiLorenzo

A review of Slavery, Secession, & Civil War: Views from the United Kingdom and Europe, 1856-1865 (Scarecrow Press, 2007) by Charles Adams. At long last Charles Adams’s new book, Slavery, Secession, & Civil War: Views… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
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  • Tom Dilorenzo
  • War for Southern Independence

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… »

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  • Joe Wolverton
  • Michael Holt
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  • The Election of 1860

The Death of Historical Accuracy

By Boyd Cathey

In case you haven’t heard, there is a new “conservative” film out; it is titled “Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?” It’s director and screenwriter is Dinesh D’Souza, the somewhat… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Boyd Cathey
  • Dinesh D'Souza
  • Donald Trump
  • Republican Party

July 4 Comes and Goes, but Doesn’t Square with The Swamp

By Paul H. Yarbrough

“Living in Washington, you can’t take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don’t believe because they get paid to.” Tucker Carlson… »

  • Donald Trump
  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Republican Party
  • Southern Politics

Sectionalism Returns

By John Devanny

Recently Michael S. Greve of George Mason University Law School wrote an insightful article which contends that sectionalism has reared its head again. This new sectionalism is dividing the states along the lines of economic… »

  • John Devanny
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Republican Party
  • Sectional Crisis
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