Where America First Went Wrong on Civil War Monuments
Charlottesville, Virginia, has finally received the green light to remove our spurned Confederate statues. After enduring years of legal delay and violent white supremacist attacks, on April 1 the Supreme Court of Virginia decided in favor of the city’s effort to rid...
For What Should We Fight Russia Or China?
Last Monday, in a single six-hour period, NATO launched 10 air intercepts to shadow six separate groups of Russian bombers and fighters over the Arctic, North Atlantic, North Sea, Black Sea and Baltic Sea. Last week also brought reports that Moscow is increasing its...
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FLORIDA: Bayonet Discovered ByJacksonville Gardener May Be Connected To Grant’s March In 1861 A bayonet discovered by a Jacksonville man tilling his garden may have a connection to Grant’s March, the July 1861 journey that took then-Col. Ulysses S. Grant...
At William & Mary, renaming efforts are part of nation’s struggle with its slaveholding past
The College of William & Mary’s historic campus — with all the complicated legacies it entails — serves as a microcosm of a larger national reckoning about when and how to leave behind symbols associated with the country’s history of racism and slaveholding. The...
Hope for the Dead
That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves. — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by governance from Britain, the word most frequently uttered...Obiter Dicta
In 1994, Republicans won a sweeping victory that cost Democrats control of the House and Senate for the first time Read More
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VIRGINIA: Latino Virginia oral history project gives voice to stories that supplant stereotypes ore than 1 in 10 Virginia residents are Latino, according to a 2022 report from the Virginia Read More