Mike » Do those rights exist Courtney only when everything goes well?If we are born with rights, then Lincoln shutting down papers is wrong. Thoe rights should be there in the best and worst of times.
courtney » i have a question for school of someone could help me. do you think that lincolns desicions sucj as suspending civil law ext. inevitable?
Randy » I don't agree with you 2/3 of the time- but the Lincoln's Errors post hits home. And yes, if historias are going to re-examine Mary Todd, they have to look at her charges against Johnson.
Mike » Hi Marc. As opposed to the Norths version today in history books? Click on my name for a blog I have on The Pond, The U.S.'s only effective spy group, and the Cold War. You may like.
RTC » Berwyn, IL and Evergreen Park, IL were both sundown towns. Berwyn is now heavilly Mexican and Evergreen Park has many blacks.
Lonnie » BTW, most younger people of color today think Lincoln was a racist. How did slavery end everywhere else?
Lonnie » I am very confused by this blog. You are anti-slavery and know about July 5th, yet you oppose the Civil War. You seem to think slavery could have ended legally. Happy July 5th!
Sara » The blog entry IS EVERYTHING WE KNOW WRONG? is amazing. I wonder how many other events in history have been "lost" or lied about?
WTF! » Black Confederates? I never heard of that before. Jim Corwe started because Black rebels were written out of history? Maybe there weren't any!
Tom » Did any other countries that got rid of slavery from 1830 on do it in the context of a civil war? The fact they didn't, means war wasn't the only way.
5fish » The south lost the war and Lincoln is a hero. It as simple as that....
5fish » l6vv6
Marc » This account is filled with half-truths and outright falsehoods.
Mike » Confederate Blacks were killed as they entered the union Camp Douglas (click on my name). The union restricted Blacks in combat- the south allowed it. Freed slaves were killed by Sherman. Your point?
big sam » yeahhhh ok...but why did the south have black union soldiers murdered?
Mike » To Greeks, the Moors were “a black people” (Mauros) to Romans, Maurus, a black wooly-haired people, known as Ethiops, Niger (Negro) and Afer (African). Hanson was a Moor.
Mike » If you have evr heard the expression, RED AND BLUE STATES, then you know the old battle lines are still in place. Who gives a shit? Every politician running!
George » North vs South....Who gives a shit? I know I don't. In any case John Hanson was a white man.
Mike » Folks if u click on my name u can go to an area to leave longer comments. At the end of each post is PERMALINK click to leave longer messages!
tony » Though weak, the Emancipation Proclomation set up the question of having an Amendment to the Constitution about abolishing slavery in the US.
tony » Lincoln was a labor President. He set the precedent not to use Federal force to settle strikes in a St. Louis newspaper strike.
tony » Jeff Davis scattered the Army across the West as a prevention. This was why we had Indian Wars and George Pickett was in the San Juan Islands of Washington Territory settling a pig dispute
tony » The South had stockpile weapons in the decades before the War by Secessionist generals with Jeff Davis in the War Department
tony » Lincoln used Federal money to buy the 3000 slaves in DC and then released them.
tony » Some states like Missouri had laws that would have ended slavery by 1901 if sooner if the 13 Amendmant wasnt around
tony » Lincoln favored economical emancipation worth over $200 millionin 1860s greenbacks
tony » You failed to mention that Lincolns over zealous generals were Democrats and shut down papers on their own initiative.
Mike » Yes I am, and I'll also be adding pictures to the text of the speech. You'll have a wealth of links & books to go to. Google search works too.
Gary » I know this was a speech, but are you doing footnotes? It would be nice to check these claims.
Deb » This site is as much about how our history is changed as it is the Civil War. Great job.
Mike » Thanks everyone! Wait until we get to occupation, re-construction and segregation! All imposed on the South by the North!
Terry » I have never read a non-racist history of this war before. I can't even say how stunned I am, but I have emailed this site to all my friends. Why didn't Lincoln sue over Fed property? Haunting.
Patrick Edmondson » In my youth the old lady next door was Miss Davis, Jefferson's granddaughter. She had his personal items and talked of the estranged black family members.
Patrick Edmondson » My uncle, a Norwegian Cuban, started Ga Tech in the 1940s. He began dating my Scotch Irish aunt from Fayetteville, Ga. he looked white but his accent got racist remark s until Desi made him a hero.
Ron » I hate to break this to you BUT WE WON! Who cares about the South? We can win the election without them, they don't matter. Bullets beat the courts!
Dan » OMFG! This site is amazing! I've signed up for updates. I was taught Davis was caught in a dress just 3 years ago. I wish I had known this!