The first assault against national unity came not from South Carolina's declaration of secession in 1861 but many years earlier when frontier farmers rebelled against a federal tax on whiskey, a ...
From behind the scissors in St. Paul, Moses Dickson helped African Americans escape slavery via the Underground Railroad and nearly led a well-organized insurrection.
Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who started the First ...
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