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Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Advisor Says That Slave Trading Was Wrong But Not Slavery Part 3

This is the third article on Rev. Doug Wilson, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spiritual advisor. Rev. Wilson is the head of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical…

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Pete Hegseth’s Minister Says That the Union War Effort Was a Campaign Against God Part 2

Earlier this week I posted an article on Rev. Doug Wilson. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a member of Doug Wilson’s religious movement, the  Communion…

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Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s “Pastor’s” View on the Civil War and Emancipation Part 1

Doug Wilson is not someone many Americans had heard of before 2025. I had done some research on him as an advocate for racist immigration…

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Admiral Farragut Statue in Madison Square By Augustus Saint-Gaudens

The Farragut monument at the north end of Madison Square Park in Manhattan is, according to the New York City Parks Department, “one of the…

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Historian David Blight On the Threat To History

David Blight is one of the most respected academic historians in the United States. A professor at Yale, he has written seven books, including the…

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Soldiers’ Monument New Britain Connecticut

New Britain is a small city in Connecticut with a population of just over 74,000. In the Civil War period, only about 10,000 people lived…

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Confederate Monument to Be Restored at Arlington National Cemetery

In another win for modern day supporters of the Confederacy, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday that the Confederate Monument will be restored…

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J.D. Vance on the Civil War and Citizenship

New York Times writer Ezra Klein had an interesting interview with Yoram Hazony, an Israeli intellectual who is close to Vice President J.D. Vance. They…

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Cooperstown New York Civil War Monument and Abner Doubleday Field

Cooperstown is one of America’s best known small towns. If I say I am going to Cooperstown, no one asks me where the town is…

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Civil War Institute Looks at How the Civil War Impacted on America’s Fight in World War II

Last weekend I attended the Civil War Institute which brings together academic historians, public historians, and students of the American Civil War to explore the…

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