When a State Song Is a Confederate Battle Cry
Critics say “Maryland, My Maryland" is a disgrace. The governor disagrees.
Civil War
What Thanksgiving Says About America
A comparison with Canada's Thanksgiving reveals the national traits embedded in this secular holiday.
Why Does This Georgia Town Honor One of America's Worst War Criminals?
The monument to Confederate officer Henry Wirz is down the road from the graveyard of his many victims
Southerners Shouldn't Take Attacks on the Confederacy Personally
And they should embrace the idea of celebrating the country's reunion
Make the Confederacy’s Defeat a National Holiday
150 years ago this week, Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union. Let's celebrate it—every year.
How to Save Iraq
This is the best, or the least bad, solution to the current crisis
Saddam Hussein's Faithful Friend, the King of Clubs, Might Be the Key to Saving Iraq
Assuming, that is, the mysterious Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is even still alive
The Emancipationist Century
David Brion Davis's trilogy was fifty years in the making, and the final volume was worth the wait
The True Story of America's First Black Female Slave Novelist
The woman behind 'The Bondwoman's Narrative'
The Poetry of Frank O’Hara
Two poems originally published in the New Republic
Gettysburg Regress
How the government is ruining America's most famous battlefield.
Every Man His Own Revolution
1776 and American Egotism
