Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
On Saturday, July 28, 2018, and article appeared in the New York Times concerning the 155th anniversary reenactment at Gettysburg and the decline in the reenacting hobby. Before reading this essay, take a moment to follow this link and read…
The title of this post is a paraphrase, if you will, of the famous quote by Karl Marx “Religion is the opium of the people.” Marx is claiming that it is religion that will addict people and will…
Nothing. Historian Kevin Levin has a thought provoking essay on his blog Civil War Memory, about monuments to Confederates located in National Parks. Levin makes the point that these monuments, maintained with federal tax dollars, were primarily built during the…