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A Picture Tells a Thousand Lies: Modern Propaganda Surrounding the War for Southern Independence
Images certainly have or can have an effect on the imagination, whether photographs, drawings, paintings or visuals created with computers. Our society literally bombards us with imagery. We see it on the internet, on television, on city buses, cereal boxes, billboards, album covers, postage stamps and the list goes on and on and all of this must have some sort of effect on the psyche
Continue Reading arrow_right_altThe Oath of Allegiance
During the War between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America and in the days following the war, the Lincoln administration and the subsequent administration coerced a significant number of Americans into signing an Oath of Allegiance
Continue Reading arrow_right_altWhat Government Does Well
The Constitution of the United States is a beautifully written and simply worded document that enumerates the function of our central government.
Continue Reading arrow_right_altLIBERTY
Mankind has been in pursuit of liberty for centuries, it is one of those nebulous concepts impossible to shake. Children raised without guidance seek liberty from their parents, families seek liberty from debt, spouses seek liberty from abuse, citizens seek liberty from tyranny.
Continue Reading arrow_right_altWho Were The Copperheads?
Are you a Copperhead?
Continue Reading arrow_right_altHISTORY MATTERS
History Matters! Particularly what isn't taught.
Continue Reading arrow_right_altCivil War 150th Sesquicentennial: Reconstruction, War on the Mind and Spirit
The intentional, tragic, and unnecessary war in which the effusion of blood was halted in 1865, has reverberated through 150 years and enabled alert observers to see the intended consequences of those echoes, decade after decade. When General Lee surrendered the remnant of the Army of Northern Virginia (approx.26,000 men) to General Grant (approx. 100,000 men) his army was exhausted from winning battles only to lose the war.
Continue Reading arrow_right_altCivil War 150th Sesquicentennial: A War to Free the Slaves?
About 50 years ago we began hearing how the so-called “American Civil War” was all about freeing the slaves. How the North’s pure motives were vindicated by ultimate success and therefore how evil and wrong the South must have been. More recently that mantra has become so pervasive as to be laughable, provided you have studied honest history.
Continue Reading arrow_right_altCivil War 150th Sesquicentennial: A War to Save the Union?
It has been nearly 15 decades since the carnival of blood, euphemistically called the American “Civil War” came to a close. Incredibly expensive, yet it enabled Northern politicians, industrialists, merchants, bankers, and their International Banking handlers to amass immense wealth...
Continue Reading arrow_right_altCivil War 150th Sesquicentennial
We have entered into an historic period that cycles through the decades only once every fifty years and we are witness to the anniversary of its third cycle. How times have changed since 1911 and 1961. Though systems have supposedly advanced and improved....
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