If false beliefs about legality exempt people from Section 3 disqualification, leading Confederates would have been exempt as well.
Ron DeSantis and Mike Pence are wrong to advocate naming a US Army base after an incompetent Confederate general who betrayed the United States to fight for slavery.
Memorial Day originated as Decoration Day, an occasion to honor the fallen soldiers of the Civil War. Douglass' 1871 speech may be the greatest-ever address associated with this occasion.
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Douglass is best-known for his role in the abolitionist movement that helped end slavery. But much of his thought is also relevant to contemporary issues.
The first episode paints an enslaver, plantation master, and Royalist autocrat as a leading and even celebrated agent of emancipation.
Lincoln's wartime governance had dire, and longstanding, economic consequences.
The novelist talks about The Kingdoms of Savannah and creating The Moth.
However this denominational divorce plays out, theology around same-sex relationships isn’t the only thing driving Methodists apart.
The creator of The Moth talks about why the past is never dead, especially in his new novel The Kingdoms of Savannah.
Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.
All that Civil War II talk is overblown—but that isn't the only sort of political violence to worry about.
There are good reasons to think polls grossly exaggerate the number of Americans who support political violence.
If we can’t learn to leave each other alone, the country may have a violent meltdown.
Yet more evidence that we are ruled by incompetents.
Should they be banned?
Neither does Portland. But the fact that the violence is continuous and seems to be escalating is cause for concern.
Those smitten by John Wayne, Robert E. Lee, or even Joseph Stalin should commission statues on their own property. The rest of us have more important issues to debate.
There is good reason to take down Confederate monuments. But rioting and vandalism are the wrong way to go about it.
All that accomplishes is encouraging us to view our fellow Americans as enemies, to see ourselves as members of warring tribes rather than citizens of a nation.
The deeply human Harriet Tubman who emerges in Dunbar's book was exhausted, frustrated—and heroic.
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Constitutional theory meets criminal defense meets Civil War history.
Silent Sam was erected in 1913 to honor UNC students who fought and died for the south. Critics say it is a symbol of white supremacy.
Withdrawal and diplomacy is the most prudent path forward in Syria. Not military escalation.
Abraham Lincoln couldn't have dreamed that 21st-century Americans would still be paying for pensions created under him.
Monuments do not merely signify the existence of historical facts; they pass judgment upon them.
No more public gathering around a handful of Confederate monuments until the government can make more rules.
But guess what happens whenever art gets in the way of one of his developments?
As Trump learned this week, pandering to white nationalists means alienating most other Americans.
After this weekend's white-supremacist rally in Virginia, more Southern cities announce plans to take down Confederate monuments.
Taking them down and putting up different statues is a reminder that in understanding the past, we shape the future.
Why government-funded agencies should display Confederate symbols only at historic sites or museums
A few years ago, Congress pardoned the Confederate president but his statues and namesakes may be starting to come down.
Anti-Confederate flag push led to some absurd outcomes that are being rolled back.
In 2015, it's an expression of hostility, not only toward black people, but to broader ideals of how the nation should come to terms with the legacy of racism.
A history of Abraham Lincoln's critics would be improved if the author weren't so smitten with Lincoln himself.
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Less likely that rebels will force him out