Trump Struck The Match, But His Predecessors Stacked The Kindling Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal published an essay by Aaron...

Sometimes it's better for people if nations dissolve

What Would Charles Sumner Do About The Billionaire Who Loved Hitler Memes? Last week, the NY Times  published an Independence Day column,...

The Crisis in California Is Real— It’s A New Front In The War For America’s Soul Roland thinks Trump sent troops to L.A. ( wasting $134...

What Kind Of American Are You? The new film, Civil War, is playing in Burbank today. It premiered at South by Southwest in March. The...

All Losers, No Winners My grandfather’s rural village, in what is now Ukraine, had been decimated by Cossacks. He was a teenager— and a...

Nikki Haley has a better chance to win the GOP primary in New Hampshire than she does in South Carolina where she was once governor. The...

Sen Charles Sumner regretted Jeff Davis wasn't shot; he'd feel the same about Trump In the late ‘60s, I was running the student...

In 1860 The Freedom Caucus Was Known As The Fire Eaters On February 4, 1861, the rebel governments of South Carolina, which had seceded...

I’ve been reading Eli Merritt’s fascinating new book, Disunion Among Ourselves. He starts with this missive: "The politics of those years...

by Noah Today, we celebrate what has been called the official end of slavery in the United States, ie. June 19th, 1865, but please note...

by Noah It somehow seems even more appropriate than ever this Memorial Day to offer a special remembrance and recognition to the...

I used to go out with a wonderful girl from Alabama; her uncle was the Attorney General while we were seeing each other and he prosecuted...

I guess at the time-- when the conservative slave states wanted to break away-- holding the union together was a good idea. And giving...

Juneteenth has been an official state holiday in Texas since since 1980 but yesterday it may have been awkward for some teachers to...

Imagine, if you can, a school of people-- even historians, celebrating Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox," because he was "a...