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Category: American History 101
Unabomber’s Homemade Pistol
On This Day in History: April 14th, 1865, President Lincoln is Shot by John Wilkes Booth and Dies a Day Later
Don’t Accept the Yankee Narrative! Read about the REAL Lincoln.
Lest We Forget
Appomattox: Lest We Forget This afternoon I attended a ceremony marking the 160th anniversary of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (which I often sardonically refer to as “the Confederate Nakba”). It was organized by the Appomattox chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and took place at the Confederate…
The Tell
Via: Evil White Guy It happened in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Now it is happening in Syria. They wanted to get rid of Assad because they said that he was evil. But then they replaced him with a man named Ahmed al-Sharaa who is far worse. The U.S. government previously had issued a…
The Nature of Guerilla Warfare in the Heart of ‘Mosby’s Confederacy’
The Nature of Guerilla Warfare in the Heart of ‘Mosby’s Confederacy’ I happened upon this 106 page theses paper submitted in 2015 to Clemson University by Brett D. Zeggil while doing research for an upcoming short story. For all you serious students of both Southern History and Guerilla Warfare, I urge you to read…
WarChad: All Your Chad Are Belong To Us
Via: The Burning Platform WarChad: All Your Chad Are Belong To Us A slog through the headstones of progress to remind us of the questions we have forgotten to ask. And some stuff about tattoos. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – LP Hartley, The Go-Between We should enjoy…
Jimmy Carter’s Legacy
If you really want to understand the sordid LEGACY of the late President Jimmy Carter, I highly recommend this Book by Mark Bowden:
On This Day in History: Operation Restore Hope, Somalia 1992
U.S. Army in Somalia 1992-1994 US Marines and allied nations launch an amphibious and airborne operation in Mogadishu, Somalia to restore order to the war-torn nation. Authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 794 passed on December 3. UNDER FIRE: Battle of the Black Sea On October 3, 1993, a composite force of United…