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During the Civil War Sesquicentennial from 2011 to 2015, Philip Leigh wrote 24 articles about the era for the New York Times. Since then he has written six books about the American Civil War and Reconstruction, including “Trading With the Enemy,” “Lee’s Lost Dispatch,” “The Confederacy at Flood Tide,” “U. S. Grant’s Failed Presidency,” and “Southern Reconstruction.” He holds a B. S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School.
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President Lincoln’s War With Republicans
by | Feb 19, 2020

Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America by Fergus M….
Impeachy Keen
Presidential Impeachment Has Always Been Used as a Political Weapon
by | Nov 16, 2019

Donald Trump is not the first president whom opponents tried to drive from office almost from the start of his…
Another Perspective
U. S. Grant and Donald Trump’s ‘Impeachable Offenses’
by | Nov 5, 2019

The Constitution stipulates that impeachment is confined to a president’s high crime or misdemeanor, not his unpopularity. To date, the…
Free the Market
The Origins of Banking’s Unholy Alliance With the Federal Government
by | Oct 29, 2019

A decade after the 2008 taxpayer bailout, Americans remained skeptical of banks. According to a 2018 survey, one-third of the…
Another Perspective
The South Has Already Paid Reparations
by | Oct 25, 2019

Ignored among current reparations discussions is the fact the South has already paid them — if not for slavery, then…
Political Hay
Impeachment: Andrew Johnson Edition
by | Oct 18, 2019

Trump critics increasingly compare him to Andrew Johnson, who, in 1868, was the first president to face impeachment. Like Trump,…
A Further Perspective
When Congress Trampled the Presidency and the Supreme Court
by | Oct 8, 2019

Two years after the Civil War ended in 1865, a Republican Congress gained a veto-proof majority in both chambers. They…
Cultural Decline
Save Confederate Statues
by | Aug 29, 2019

Texas novelist William Humphrey revealed how Confederate statues animate the Southern tradition: “If the Civil War is more alive to…

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