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Death of the Confederacy

Follow the final blows to the Confederacy as General William Tecumseh Sherman leads his infamous March to the Sea. This video ...
STARKVILLE, Miss.—A new edition of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoirs has been annotated by some of the nation’s leading Civil War scholars at Mississippi State University—an effort marking 150 ...
Recently, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (aka Secretary of War Pete Hegseth) announced that the shaving exemption which has been in place for many years is being terminated (“Pentagon mandates ...
Would you stake thousands of lives on a strategy that, by every measure of your training and experience, seems destined for catastrophic failure? In 1863, with the Vicksburg campaign stalled, Maj. Gen ...
In 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman advanced on Atlanta as part of Ulysses S. Grant’s grand strategy to break the Confederacy’s will to fight. This video explores how Sherman’s campaign ...
Forget what you’ve been told: 40 acres and a mule — the federal government’s broken promise of land to newly freed Black Americans — wasn’t a myth. It happened. And in Royal, Florida, it’s a legacy.
PINEVILLE, La. (KALB) - Before the Union declared victory over the Confederate states in the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman became a leader in Louisiana’s higher education system. After ...
COLUMBIA — What is arguably the most photographed statue at the South Carolina capital is not even that of a South Carolinian. At the base of the Statehouse steps is a regal likeness of America's ...
Aniello Falcone's - Roman Soldiers in the Circus. Government inflation and debasement of its money have been around almost as long as coins have been struck. Even as far back as the coinage of ancient ...
LSU archaeologists are excavating the site of the original Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy in Pineville. The excavation aims to uncover the building's footprint, construction ...
In his book Nation, State and Economy, published in 1919, Ludwig von Mises wrote of how nineteenth-century imperialist powers often preceded their wars of “conquest, subjugation, and extermination” ...