Religion
Hey, you forgot the most important one of all: Constitution of the Confederate States of America Preamble: We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and [...]
First let me apologize for the continual change to this blog’s appearance. For some reason I get bored with the look of it and find a need to explore other possibilities. I’m sure I was an interior decorator in a past life. The other day I posted some concerns about so-called Christian studies of the [...]
It never ceases to amaze me, but every year I get the same questions when my classes study the Civil War. Yesterday it was, “Is it true that Grant was a butcher?” Luckily I get to address that one head on today. In one of my other classes a student asked if it was true [...]
I decided to follow up yesterday’s depressing news story out of Mississippi involving Claude Tubberville and his inane assertions about the Civil War. What follows is a sample of the kinds of evidence that James McPherson uses in his article, “Long-Legged Yankee Lies: The Southern Textbook Crusade” which appeared in an edited collection titled, The [...]