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- 1From:The National Interest (Issue 181)Where will the deep divisions in American society lead? Violent acts of insurrection have already taken place, the most serious of which was the January 6, 2021, attack on the national capitol. Could violent civil war...
- 2From:Texas Monthly (Vol. 50, Issue 11)Calls for independence have grown louder on the right. That might change if more Texans understood the costs of such a move. One hundred and seventy-six years have passed since Texas called itself an independent...
- 3From:National Review (Vol. 72, Issue 24)Texas's lawsuit challenging presidential voting procedures in other states was rightly rejected out of hand by a unanimous Supreme Court. Allen West, the former Florida congressman and current chairman of the Texas...
- 4From:The EconomistDon't even think about protesting Don't even think about protesting Don't even think about protesting The end of Hong Kong as a place with its own values and freedoms has been called many times. Could its time...
- 5From:America's Civil War (Vol. 33, Issue 6)For Corporal Charles Lynch and his comrades in the 18th Connecticut Infantry, Martinsburg, W.Va., had the feeling of a second home by the time the regiment reached there July 11, 1864. Over the previous two years, the...
- 6From:Education Week (Vol. 39, Issue 04)In the history of court-ordered desegregation, school districts in Southern states stand out for how separate they once kept children of different races-and how quickly that racial apartheid was dismantled. That...
- 7From:New Statesman (Vol. 147, Issue 5444)For Marcus Ruiz Evans, Brexit was a political epiphany. "Yes, the pound dropped, there has been a lot of hardship, I get that," he conceded when we met one recent morning in Fresno, northern California. "But what we saw...
- 8From:National Review (Vol. 69, Issue 20)IN 1932, four years before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the philosopher and essayist Jose Ortega y Gasset declared that the "Catalan problem" was impossible to solve. He is reported to have said: "It is a...
- 9From:Vietnam (Vol. 26, Issue 2)AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR, July 2013 Author Winston Groom examines how in the summer of 1863 the leaders of the Confederacy, in the face of overwhelming losses that spelled doom for their cause, still refused to quit. A...
- 10From:New Statesman (Vol. 147, Issue 5445)Jo Johnson, sibling of Boris, has become a Remainer hero after resigning from the government because he rejects all forms of Brexit on offer. But we should not forget that his record as universities minister (before he...
- 11From:Washington Monthly (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2)Wars have often unleashed forces the warring parties hadn't expected and couldn't control. The Thirty Years' War began as a struggle between religions but gave birth to the modern system of secular states, while World...
- 12From:America's Civil War (Vol. 28, Issue 3)After 150 years, some of us still argue about that. But interestingly, the historians who've dedicated their careers to studying every aspect of the conflict don't. Slavery led to secession, most conclude, because many...
- 13From:The New American (Vol. 27, Issue 7)Wars are seldom tidy, and often the unfinished business from one war provides the spark and tinder for the next. The forts that guarded Charleston Harbor in the latter half of the 19th century were part of a series of...
- 14From:New Criterion (Vol. 36, Issue 4)The sardana is a Catalan folk dance in which those taking part link hands in a circle that widens as newcomers arrive, or shrinks as those tiring from their exertions leave to talk to friends or sit in nearbv cafes as...
- 15From:The Christian Century (Vol. 128, Issue 4)WHAT THEY FOUGHT FOR: Americans are still arguing over the reasons for the Civil War, notes historian James W. Loewen, with some saying that the South seceded to defend states' rights, not slavery. But Loewen says the...
- 16From:Civil War Times Illustrated (Vol. 40, Issue 1)ABRAHAM LINCOLN STOOD on the east portico of the U.S. capitol on March 4, 1861, and looked out upon "acres of people." Since his election in November 1860, a clamor of voices had swelled across the country, a din of...
- 17From:New York Times Upfront (Vol. 146, Issue 13)Almost 150 years after the end of the Civil War, supporters of the Union and the Confederacy are still battling it out in Florida. But today's fight isn't about slavery or secession--it's about a monument. The...
- 18From:The Economist (Vol. 424, Issue 9059)It requires a better answer than an unconstitutional independence referendum SPAIN has known tumultuous times: civil war in the 1930s, dictatorship until 1975, a failed coup in 1981, a financial and economic crash in...
- 19From:New York Times Upfront (Vol. 143, Issue 12)You probably know that the Civil War began 150 years ago this month at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Maybe you can even name the major players, battles, and issues at stake for both the Union and the Confederacy. And...
- 20From:Civil War Times (Vol. 49, Issue 3)Americans who lived through the Civil War established four great interpretive traditions regarding the conflict. The Union Cause tradition framed the war as preeminently an effort to maintain a viable republic in the...