Obiter Dicta
When War Comes Home: A Constitutional Warning
A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a...
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News From Around the South, 8/31 to 9/7
TEXAS:Texas education board approves controversial school curriculum changes The Brief The Republican-majority Texas State Board of Education...
250 years of US independence: How France helped turn the tide of the Revolutionary War
On July 4, 1776, 13 British colonies in North America broke with the British Crown and declared their independence, in a momentous act of rebellion that would change the course of history. As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, FRANCE 24 looks back at France’s decisive – and often overlooked – role in the American Revolution. More than a year after the Declaration of...
An Excess of Brutality: The Surrender of the Dalton Garrison
In the first week of October 1864, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood struck U.S Army Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s supply lines north of Atlanta....
250 years after America went to war for independence, a divided nation battles over its legacy
LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how...