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Slavery

Unlearning “Fake History”

By H.V. Traywick, Jr.

An African-American columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch has opined that it is time to unlearn the “fake history” of slavery and “The Lost Cause” that ostensibly has been taught in schools in Virginia and the… »

  • H.V. Traywick
  • Political Correctness
  • Slavery

The Lies and Hypocrisy of the Civil War

By Jacob G. Hornberger

More than 150 years after the Civil War, the nation is engulfed in controversy over statues of people who fought for the Confederacy. Many people want the statues taken down. The statues, they say, depict… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Jacob Hornberger
  • Racism
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The World They Made Together

By Vito Mussomeli

A review of The World They Made Together, Black and White Values in Eighteenth Century Virginia, by Mechal Sobel, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1987 I In America, in 1607 the first successful British… »

  • Book Review
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  • Mechal Sobel
  • Slavery
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  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Vito Mussomeli

Through a Lens Darkly

By John Marquardt

There is an old saying in the theater that when one is acting the part of a butler in a play, the actor tends to regard it as a play about butlers.  This manner of… »

  • John Marquardt
  • Political Correctness
  • Secession
  • Slavery
  • War for Southern Independence

Slavery and the War

By Michael Armstrong

The recent apoplexy over White House Chief-of-Staff John Kelly’s comments about Robert E. Lee and the Civil War have revealed on ongoing problem in the thinking of many Americans when it comes to history and… »

  • John Kelly
  • Michael Armstrong
  • Secession
  • Slavery
  • War for Southern Independence

Slavery and the Confederacy

By Kirkpatrick Sale

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be… »

  • Kirkpatrick Sale
  • Racism
  • Slavery
  • Southern History

Nat Turner: Terrorist

By Ryan Walters

As the old cliché goes, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” The phrase has been around forever, it seems, and sometimes it can be true, I suppose. There are always exceptions to every… »

  • Nat Turner
  • Political Correctness
  • Ryan Walters
  • Slavery

Southern Reconstruction

By Brion McClanahan

A review of Southern Reconstruction by Philip Leigh (Westholme, 2017). Confronting the establishment narrative about any historical topic can be a perilous endeavor. There are several that present such large minefields that most historians dare… »

  • Book Review
  • Brion McClanahan
  • Featured
  • Philip Leigh
  • Racism
  • Reconstruction
  • Slavery

The Historical Folly of “Nothing but Race.”

By Boyd Cathey

At the base of most of the ongoing political debates currently raging in the United Sates there are always, it seems, deeper questions, more philosophical and more historical contexts that need to be examined—what I… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Democrat Party
  • Jim Crow
  • Nat Turner
  • New South
  • Republican Party
  • Sam Ervin
  • Slavery
  • Southern Politics

Slavery and the War

By H.V. Traywick, Jr.

To assert the dogma that slavery caused the war of the 1860s sanctifies the North, vilifies the South, glorifies the Blacks, and mythologizes the war. This dogma has been thrown out there as an unchallenged… »

  • H.V. Traywick
  • Slavery
  • War for Southern Independence

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