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Some controversies still linger about the American Civil War, but after 150 years, the basics are clear, right? Well, not really. We have forgotten a lot

Some were corrupt, others were inept, and some were downright idiotic, here are some of the most notorious military generals in history.

Anadolu AgencyGetty Images "No terms except an unconditional surrender can be accepted," Ulysses S. Grant told Confederate General Simon B. Buckner in 1862. "I propose to move immediately upon your works." So it must be with the insurrectionists of 2021, who even brought a Confederate flag into the Capitol. President-elect Joe Biden can talk all he wants about unity and healing the nation, but the United States Congress must institute decisive consequences for those who participated in, or aid...

Marker’s experimental documentary, Sunless, was heralded by critics and admirers as a return to personal filmmaking after a decade of radical, collectively produced films. Ostensibly a documentary about Japanese culture, Sunless blasts apart the realist documentary tradition, continuing the radical aesthetic ideology of Vertovian cinema. Marker’s revival of Vertov’s montage techniques are used in this film to study the ontology of truth in documentary images and narrative films from the...