WASHINGTON — With all the talk about the discovery of mass burial graves in faraway Ukraine, there is little thought of such graves being discovered here in America. Yet in recent weeks, archeologists have found their own mass grave in…
History is a bit like Otto von Bismarck’s famous line about sausages and laws, which, he said, no one should watch being made. Think of all the people you’ve seen in pictures and statues or on coins and currency. Consider…
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom … The Republican-led post-Civil War Congresses acted on that resolve. They passed three constitutional…
One hundred and sixty years ago in early September 1862, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, fresh from a stunning victory at Second Bull Run (or Second Manassas), crossed the Potomac River and invaded Maryland,…
The ludicrous 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia did more than any other recent event to discredit white supremacists. The media suggested a national movement threatening to use President Donald Trump’s victory to grab a share of political…
Robert E. Lee: A Life Allen C. Guelzo (Knopf, 608 pages, $35) “Who’s that man on the horse?” I asked my father at a young age. “That’s Lee — he led the South in the Civil War.” He gave me…
Old Town is a historic corner of Alexandria, Virginia, rich with historic homes inhabited by many of Washington, D.C.’s managing class. Alexandria voted overwhelmingly for President Joe Biden in 2020. During the campaign, Trump lawn signs were a challenge to…
Washington and Lee University has announced that it will keep its name. In normal times that would seem unexceptional. Both Washington and Lee long have been honored as exceptional men. But both the leading revolutionary general and first president and…
Bonaparte or Napoleon? Revolutionary general carrying the banner of liberal humanism across Europe? Tyrannical emperor imposing arrogant domination? Or epic hero bearing glory of universal appeal? The French, to the degree they pay any heed at all to the reluctant…
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