War, Memory and Gettysburg
Jul 8, 2019 War is, and always has been, about the betrayal of the young by the old, idealists by cynics and soldiers by politicians.White Supremacist in Charlottesville Case Gets Life Sentence
Jun 28, 2019 James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into the crowd at a 2017 "Unite the Right" rally, killing one person and injuring over two dozen others.
West Point Can’t Hide Its Reverence for the Confederacy
Oct 24, 2018 Robert E. Lee is practically a fixture on campus. What will it take for the academy to pull down these totems of white supremacy?
The Other Enduring Legacy of Jim Crow in Charlottesville, Va.
Oct 16, 2018 A new report finds the city has one of the widest education gaps in the country, with white students more likely to be considered gifted.
Lynching the Past
Oct 1, 2018 Many Southern whites continue to lie to themselves and the world about the Civil War and the antebellum South. These lies perpetuate the evil they seek to hide.
American History for Truthdiggers: The Slow, Perilous Shift to Emancipation
Sep 15, 2018 In 1861-65, Americans waged a war among themselves that remains the bloodiest in U.S. history. It began as a fight to preserve the Union but morphed into an abolitionist war to free 4 million men, women and children from bondage.
Politics
American History for Truthdiggers: The Fraudulent Mexican-American War (1846-48)
Aug 18, 2018 President Polk, and generations of sympathetic historians, told the American people the conflict was justified. But what if it was just blatant imperialism?
How Right-Wingers in High Places Are Keeping Racist Statues Standing
Aug 7, 2018 It's a clash of ideas and values that might be characterized as Charlottesville versus the neo-Confederacy.
The Confederacy Endures
Dec 8, 2017 The inconvenient truth is that the military, especially the Army, has long reflected a political and cultural divide in the United States.
Take a Knee for Humanity
Sep 25, 2017 The days of keeping politics out of sports are history. Now is the time for sports figures to use their platforms to lead a global peace movement.
