Channelling George Washington: Junking the Constitution
Credit: Wiki Commons/HNN staff."Mr. Madison, call your office!""I beg your pardon?"I’m only half kidding. As if we didn’t have enough trouble holding the country together, a law professor at university...
View ArticleChannelling George Washington: The Worthless Continental
A 1779 fifty-five dollar note printed by the Continental Congress. Via Wiki Commons."Welcome to the Continental Congress.""I'm not sure what you mean by that, Mr. President.""I mean we're on our way to...
View ArticleGeorge Washington: The Forgotten Emancipator
George Washington at Yorktown, by Auguste Couder. P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }This article is adapted from Thomas Fleming’s new book, A Disease In the Public Mind – A New Understanding of Why We Fought...
View ArticleThomas Jefferson's Nightmare
Incendie de la Plaine du Cap. - Massacre des Blancs par les Noirs, 1833.This article is adapted from Thomas Fleming’s new book, A Disease In the Public Mind – A New Understanding of Why We Fought the...
View ArticleAnother Thomas Jefferson Tried to Eliminate Slavery in Virginia
This article is adapted from Thomas Fleming’s new book, A Disease In the Public Mind – A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War. Part two of a three-part series (read parts one and two)....
View ArticleThe Real Uncle Tom and the Unknown South He Helped Create
Illustration for 1853 edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Credit: Wiki Commons.Today’s readers of Uncle Tom’s Cabin have no idea that there was a real Uncle Tom. Neither did the readers of the 1850s. His...
View ArticleA New Way to Look at America's Wars
Via Tumblr.From my early days as an historian, I have always looked for insights that explain the past on a deeper level than a series of merely exciting or disturbing events. I still vividly remember...
View ArticleWhat If Robert E. Lee Accepted Command of the Union Army?
Credit: Wiki Commons/HNN staff.The United States of America trembled on the brink of her greatest tragedy -- a civil war that would kill a million young men. Seven Southern states had seceded after...
View ArticleWinston Groom: Review of Thomas Fleming's "A Disease in the Public Mind: A...
Winston Groom is the author of Forrest Gump and, most recently, Shiloh, 1862. His forthcoming book, The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight,...
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