President Lincoln was a statesman. John Brown was a radical. That’s the traditional view of how each one fought slavery, but it fails to capture the full measure of their devotion.
My father was born in 1901. His father was born in 1857. The Hartmans had to live in a tiny community, Parnell, KS, which was outside the slave-sympathizing town of
The economic and social influences that contributed to the Civil War were just months from turning into America’s deadliest conflict. Congress was carefully balancing slave states and free states as i.
Dr. Aaron Astor Professor of History at Maryville College in Maryville, TN, will be the guest speaker for the Feb. 14 Cumberland Mountain Civil War Roundtable. Astor’s presentation topic “Electing