Tag: secession
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Secession (again)
Secession again rears its ugly head, this time on The Volokh Conspiracy. Professor Eugene Volokh opines “I keep hearing the claim that the legitimacy of secession from the U.S. was “settled at Appomattox,” and I wanted to say a few words about why I think that makes little sense.” While he thinks that “today, secession […]
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Civil War Talk Radio: June 12, 2009
Air Date: 061209 Subject: Charles B. Dew, Civil War Author Books: Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War & Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge & Ironmaker to the Confederacy : Joseph Reid Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works Guest: Professor Charles B. Dew, Williams College […]
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Short Takes
Haven’t had much time to blog lately as I have been getting out another book. Nothing to do with the Civil War, this one’s the fourth edition of River Rescue, first published way back in 1985. If anyone out there in our radio audience is a canoeist, kayaker, or rafter, it might interest you. Did […]
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Civil War Times Illustrated, January 2007
Why Are These Summaries Showing Up Late? Civil War Times Illustrated Volume 45, Number 10 (January 2007) Civil War Times Illustrated Web Site Mail Call…..4 Turning Points: Arming the Confederacy…..9 Josiah Gorgas by Jeffry D. Wert This month Turning Points looks at Brigadier General Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Ornance Bureau. Gallery: South Carolina […]
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Secession news
Secession—it’s not just a Southern thing any more. Perhaps these fire-eating DNC protesters have been reading Professor Somin’s exegesis on the subject.
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If At First You Don’t Secede II
The law professors have taken up the issue! First out the gate was Ann Althouse, a Constitutional Law prof out of Madison, Wisconsin. Her take is that “all these people [who believe in the right of secession] have the law wrong and don’t seem to know the basics of the history of the Civil War,” […]
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Civil War Odds & Ends: July 26, 2008
Yesterday’s Odds & Ends took a look at the latest in the Civil War blogosphere. As promised, here is a bonus Odds & Ends covering the rest of the latest Civil War news across the rest of the World Wide Web. I am also going to start calling this column “Civil War Odds & Ends” […]