States Rights

Civil War Figures

John C. Calhoun: The Man Who Started the Civil War

If one person could be called the instigator of the Civil War, it was John C. Calhoun—genius pragmatist, and racist.

Today in History: Born on January 28

1693

Anna "Ivanovna", Tsarina of Russia.

1706

John Baskerville, inventor of the "hot-pressing" method of printing.

1853

Jose Marti, Cuban poet and journalist, known as the "Apostle of the Cuban Revolution."

1912

Jackson Pollock, influential abstract expressionist painter.

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America's Civil War

Fatal Sabbath: A Confederate Veteran’s Memoir of Chickamauga

Nearly five decades after the war, Southern officer remembers the confrontation that led to Federal retreat

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Wild West

Book Review: The Frontier Army

Eli Paul offers fresh insights into the Old Army in this compilation of seven eyewitness accounts from the era

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When the Sioux Ambushed Pawnee Hunters at ‘Massacre Canyon’

Eager to attack their traditional foes, a powerful Oglala/Brulé force thundered down on a hapless Pawnee hunting party in southwest Nebraska

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Military History

Libbie Custer’s Literary Love Affair With Her Late Husband

For nearly six decades after Little Big Horn, George Custer's widow burnished the general's reputation and wrote movingly of reconciliation with former foes

States Rights

John C. Calhoun: The Man Who Started the Civil War

John C. Calhoun: The Man Who Started the Civil War

Fatal Sabbath: A Confederate Veteran’s Memoir of Chickamauga

Book Review: The Frontier Army

When the Sioux Ambushed Pawnee Hunters at ‘Massacre Canyon’

Libbie Custer’s Literary Love Affair With Her Late Husband

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