Independence Hypocrisy
Officials in Catalonia, Spain’s richest and most highly industrialized region, whose capital is Barcelona, recently held a referendum in which there was a 92 percent vote in favor of [...]
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Were Confederate Generals Traitors?
My “Rewriting American History” column of a fortnight ago, about the dismantling of Confederate monuments, generated considerable mail. Some argued there should not be statues [...]
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Black Confederates Were More Than Cooks And Servants
Last July, Anthony Hervey, an outspoken black advocate for the Confederate flag, was killed in a car crash. Arlene Barnum, a surviving passenger in the vehicle, told authorities and the […]
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Historical Ignorance II: The Truth About Lincoln’s Position on Slavery
We call the war of 1861 the Civil War. But is that right? A civil war is a struggle between two or more entities trying to take over the central […]