“The Chronicles of the American Civil War” — program designed to bring scholars, author and historians to the podcast on a weekly basis to discuss
any and all aspects of this important time in out history.
Categories: Education, History
Tags: battle, CivilWar, Confederacy, historical, History, reenactor, union, war
“Buried Truths” acknowledges and unearths still-relevant stories of injustice, racism, and resistance in the American South. We can’t change our history, but we can let it guide us to understanding. The podcast is hosted by journalist, professor, and Pulitzer-prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff.
Categories: History, Society & Culture, True Crime
Tags: Ahmaud Arbery, alt-right, atlanta, black history, Black History Month, black lives matter, brunswick, BURIED, civil rights, cold case, Confederacy, confederate, donald trump, DOVER CARTER, GENE TALMADGE, georgia, HANK KLIBANOFF, History, injustice, ISAIAH NIXON, jim crow, Macon, MYSTERY, police privi, racial Bigotry, racial discrimination, racial divide, racial injustice, Racism, segregation, south, Truth, voter suppression, Voting rights, wabe, white supremacy
With the election of the anti-slavery Republican candidate for President, Abraham Lincoln, the Southern states decided they had to take drastic action in order to protect their own interests. On December 20, 1860, a secession convention met in South Carolina and adopted an Ordinance of Secession from the Union. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas quickly followed suit. These states sent delegates to Montgomery, Alabama and on February 8, 1861 adopted a provisional constitution for the newly formed Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis was chosen as the President for a six-year term of office. The Constitution by which the permanent government of the Confederate States of America was formed was reported by the committee and adopted by the Provisional Congress on the 11th of March, 1861, to be submitted to the States for ratification. All States ratified it and conformed themselves to its requirements without delay. The Constitution varied in very few particulars from the Constitution of the United States, preserving carefully the fundamental principles of popular representative democracy and confederation of co-equal States. These events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans would lose their lives fighting for constitutional principle, sectional differences, economic self-interest, and moral righteousness. As a defining moment in United States history, our Civil War has no equal, these are the Civil War Chronicles.
Categories: Fiction, Kids & Family
Tags: antietam, battlefields, Bull, burnside, Casualties, civil, Confederacy, confederate, Custer, generals, generl, Gettysburg, grant, humphrey, lee, longstreet, Memorials, picket, run, Soldiers, war, weapons
Nasan Rattlingbones was supposed to die. That’s what exile means in a post-apocalyptic Canada that hasn’t seen rain in almost two hundred years, but this disgraced clan warrior has other plans. She will survive alone in the wasteland of junipers and broken, haunted cities – just as soon as she figures out how. Enter Oscar, a strange bird who claims to be her spirit guide but can’t quite prove it. She doesn’t believe a word when he says she’s been chosen by the Stars to save the world. Oscar may not be what Nasan hoped for in a spirit guide, but he does find her a place to stay with the rich people who’ve built a walled city around their very own reservoir. She tries to build a new life there while dogged by the memories of the botched water raid that killed half her clan. The angel-like Stars who rule the universe reconsider Earth’s drought-curse once every century. The human race gets just one witness for the defense – and the throne at Calgary wants to send a man who will forfeit rain for universal passage to Heaven. Nasan needs to help her newfound friends stop Calgary, but she just as desperately needs to get home and face down the chieftain who wrongly banished her. Meanwhile she’s beginning to suspect that Oscar is in on some sort of heavenly conspiracy. Whether he’s telling the truth or not, she may just have to step up to the challenge and save the world anyway.
Categories: Uncategorised
Tags: Confederacy, drought, fantasy, fiction, heaven, heroine, of, postapocalyptic, science, stars