Columns

Published: 8/7/24

Plotting Journey to Shiloh

By: Matthew Christopher Hulbert

Category: Articles

BY THE WINTER OF 1967, Americans had been hearing for nearly three years that victory in South Vietnam was just around the corner. According to President Lyndon B. Johnson and...

Published: 6/18/24

Scalawag

By: Tracy L. Barnett

Category: Commentary

SCAL•A•WAG | noun | A word signifying a low, worthless fellow. During the reconstruction period following the Civil War, it was at the South applied to Southerners who joined the...

Published: 6/14/24

An Unwilling Abolitionist

By: Andrew S. Bledsoe

Category: Commentary

In February 1863, the war between the United States and the Confederacy faced a sea change. The Emancipation Proclamation had gone into effect in January, freeing by executive order more...

Published: 6/14/24

The Centennial & The Twilight Zone

By: Matthew Christopher Hulbert

Category: Commentary

Wearing a black suit and pencil tie, a man strolls into the frame. With a Chesterfield cigarette smoldering between his fingers, he turns, squints at the camera, and breaks the...