US Army sets dates for Confederate cleanup Six of nine domestic bases recommended for rebranding will get new names by June After Robert E. Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, an army for which food, boots, medical supplies, and replacements for casualties could no longer be supplied by the small population of the... Read More

The KKK is widely understood as an institution that symbolizes white racial hatred of blacks, hatred slaked by lynching blacks. End of story. The KKK did not originate as a racist organization. It was a resistance movement during the punitive period of Reconstruction when northerners stole property from southerners, imposed black governments and denied whites... Read More

One of the funniest moments of the Civil War, a conflict admittedly deficient in genuine rib-ticklers, must have been when Union politicians sat down to consider the consequences of the Emancipation Proclamation… …and realized that the census would convert 3/5 slaves into 5/5 freedmen… …translating into 12 additional votes for the southern states in Congress... Read More