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One hundred and sixty years ago, small farmers from Appalachia marched off to fight for an economic system from which they derived no benefit, one based on human slavery.
Book review of American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 by Alan Taylor washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
by Guy Lancaster Guy Lancaster is author or editor of several books on racial violence in Arkansas, most recently the revised edition of Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919 , is tentatively scheduled for release by the University of Arkansas Press in the fall of 2021. James Henry Hammond was the Governor of South Carolina (1842-1844) and U.S. Senator (1857-1860). He was a principle proponent of the idea of slavery as a positive good for the Black and White races alike, demonstrating the epistemic closure of white supremacy.
“Putting on my pith helmet.” That’s the phrase I used to describe the mental stance I would adopt whenever my wife and I went to her parents’ church on one of our visits to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Theirs was a rather fundamentalist Presbyterian congregation, one that gave truth to the description of Calvinists as the “frozen chosen,” although the pastor did occasionally adopt a youthful and hip style of delivery, perhaps in a paradoxical attempt to make the doctrine of limited atonement more acceptable to a wider audience. It was ultimately easier for us to tag along on Sunday mornings than to have the weighty and tearful discussion with her parents about our actual beliefs (or lack thereof) should we refuse, but each time by the end of the service my jaw would be clenched so tightly that it was difficult to do the usual post-worship chitchat.
Racial Epistemology and its Discontents: What Really Makes Concepts "Divisive" historynewsnetwork.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from historynewsnetwork.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
160 years since the attack on Fort Sumter: The beginning of the American Civil War At 4:30 in the morning on April 12, 1861, the South Carolina militia lobbed a 10-inch mortar over Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The first shot of the Civil War was a signal for a bombardment. After 33 hours and several thousand more shells, the beleaguered federal garrison at Fort Sumter surrendered to forces of the new slave republic, the Confederate States of America. The Civil War raged on for four more years, until the surrender of Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. In between, some 750,000 Americans died in the fighting, according to the best estimates.
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John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? John C. Calhoun on Capitol Hill, 2015Credit...Zach Gibson/The New York Times Buy Book ▾ By Andrew Delbanco By Robert Elder Coming so soon after a neoconfederate mob rampaged through the Capitol, a respectful biography of the ideological father of the Confederacy may feel as welcome as an exhumed corpse. But the young historian Robert Elder has given us just that in “Calhoun” — an illuminating account of the life of the notorious white supremacist as well as his complex afterlife in American political culture. John C. Calhoun was a zealous defender of slavery. His name has lately been stripped from a residential college at Yale (his alma mater) and from a lake in Minnesota named in his honor when he was secretary of war. His monument in Charleston — a glowering bronze figure in a cloak spread like eagle wings atop an obelisk — has been removed to an undisclosed location, as if in a witness protection program.
Most Americans are taught that the first black people landed in America in 1619 somewhere in Virginia. That is not quite true. There were black people with
BEECH ISLAND â Redcliffe Plantation was blanketed in haze and fallen leaves early Friday, a New Yearâs Day many had longed for. It was decidedly blustery for a 68-degree South Carolina morning, with breezes spritzing the state historic site â once home to Civil War politician James Henry Hammond, his descendants and slaves â with glistening rain. The grounds, more than 300 acres painted a palette of wintertime hazel, were nearly empty. The expansive porch was deserted, its rocking chairs still. A lane lined by magnolias welcomed one walker around 9:30 a.m. Birds chirped. Branches rustled. But, overall, it was quiet, peaceful. In years past, many greeted January with so-called First Day hikes, wilderness excursions promoted by Americaâs State Parks and a raft of other players.
Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It’s Working. She is the breakout star of the newsletter platform Substack, doing the opposite of most media as she calmly situates the news of the day in the long sweep of American history. Heather Cox Richardson, a history professor at Boston College, is more or less by accident the most successful independent journalist in America.Credit...Tristan Spinski for The New York Times Published Dec. 27, 2020Updated Dec. 30, 2020 Last Wednesday, I broke the news to Heather Cox Richardson that she was the most successful individual author of a paid publication on the breakout newsletter platform Substack.