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American Executive Power in Historical Perspective . Stephane Wolton (Chicago): Beyond Money : How Special Interest Groups Influence Policy Choices...Buffalo): The Myth of State Autonomy : Federalism, Political Parties, and the National Colonization
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If Slavery Were So Godawful, Why Didn't Jesus Condemn It?' Three is a trend. After one Arkansas lawmaker was recently caught arguing the merits of slavery and another was caught advocating death to naughty children , a third has solidified that fact
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Texas Blacks fought in the Civil War, surprisingly on the side of the Confederacy, many of them from Texas, Palestine historian Norris White Jr. said his research shows. They are the "black forgotten Confederates," White said, who has extensively
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In the ongoing left-wing parade of charges that conservatism equals racism, add Daily Kos blogger Chauncey de Vega , who on Wednesday night hailed a Salon.com article on the avoidance of slavery talk as another opportunity to weave together the
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Though the Union won the war, the Confederates won the story. After the war ended in 1865, both sides went off to lick their wounds and the American public immediately began reshaping the war into a useable narrative. Normally, this would mean
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Among the enduring mysteries of the American Civil War is why millions of Northerners were willing to fight to preserve the nation's unity. It is not difficult to understand why the Southern states seceded in 1860 and 1861. As the Confederacy's
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Writing in the April 10 edition of Parade magazine , former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Civil War by linking modern conservatives to the old Confederacy and bigotry against African Americans. The journalist
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I grew up only a few miles north of the only Civil War battle that President Lincoln ever witnessed -- the Confederate attack on Fort Stevens in 1864 in what was then the outskirts of Washington, D.C. As a child, I attended a summer day camp in a
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Saturday, April 9 marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. The war took countless lives, abolished slavery and converted our country from a loose collection of states into a unified nation. It was a transformative event on par with
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These are some of the results of The Harris Poll of 2,566 adults surveyed online between January 17 and 24, 2011 by Harris Interactive . Some states, particularly those in the South, have announced plans to remember and commemorate national as well
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