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In Syria, America's National Interests Do Not Coincide With Israel's

Sarwar Kashmeri | Posted 05.06.2013 | World
Read More: France, General Dempsey, Syria, Al Nusra Front, General Martin Dempsey, Sarwar Kashmeri, Hezbollah, Israel, American Civil War, Hagel, Assad, Chuck Hagel, Britain, World News
Sarwar Kashmeri

There is no compelling national interest that requires American intervention in Syria's civil war. In fact, such an intervention would be a strategic error.

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Today In 1865: Civil War Document Changed A Nation

The Huffington Post | Gabrielle Dunkley | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
Read More: Robert E. Lee, Video, Date Civil War Ended, Civil War, Civil War Ended, Civil War Document, Civil War Surrender, Civil War Anniversary, American Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, Politics News

Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant after the final battle at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865,...

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Victor Hugo and Abraham Lincoln

Norman MacAfee | Posted 03.31.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Lee Fahnestock, Javert, Dos Passos, Royal Shakespeare Company, Whitman, Brooklyn Museum?S Egyptian Collection, Claude-Michel Schoenberg, Fantine, Ginsberg, Les Miserables, American Civil War, Leo Tolstoy, David Hancock Turner, Dickens, War and Peace, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Marius, Sartre, Cosette, Neruda, Victor Hugo, LuAnn Walther, C. E. Wilbour, Abraham Lincoln, Alain Boublil, Cameron Mackintosh, Pasolini, Jacobin, Valjean, Entertainment News
Norman MacAfee

In this film awards season, two works embody enduring pinnacles of idealism.

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Why Django Unchained is One of the Most Important Movies of the Year

Bob Cesca | Posted 03.13.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: History, Racism, Race, Slavery, The Civil War, Quentin Tarantino, American Civil War, Hollywood, Django Unchained, Entertainment News
Bob Cesca

It's becoming clear to me that Tarantino made something far deeper than a spaghetti western. I've come to realize that his chosen homage/genre was simply a launching point into a much more substantive story about an unlikely friendship, joined in a quest for an unlikely love story.

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The Creative Apparatus Of God

Lee C. Camp | Posted 02.25.2013 | Religion
Read More: Creativity, Nashville, God, Entertainment, Bluegrass, American Civil War, Country Music, Evelyn Underhill, Christianity, Religion News
Lee C. Camp

This liberty to form part of the creative apparatus of God, is exhaustingly joyous. We all have some beautiful art to make, perform, or sing: words to write, pictures to paint, families to nurture, gardens to grow, lessons to teach, goods to tender, worship to give.

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Rethinkin' Lincoln on the 150th Birthday of the Emancipation Proclamation

Bill Bigelow | Posted 02.12.2013 | Home
Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Steven Spielberg Lincoln, American Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Abolitionists, 13th Amendment, Eric Foner, Slavery, Tony Kushner, Home News
Bill Bigelow

In coming months and years, teachers' jobs will be made harder by Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln, in which Daniel Day-Lewis gives a brilliant performance as, well, Lincoln-the-abolitionist. The only problem is that Lincoln was not an abolitionist.

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The Central Park Five Deserve Economic Justice

Tom Allon | Posted 01.29.2013 | New York
Read More: Mayor Koch, American Civil War, Civil Rights Movement, Central Park Jogger, Central Park Five, Governor Cuomo, Ken Burns, New York News
Tom Allon

When you rob five young men of their youth, innocence and educational opportunity and put them and their families through hell for more than a decade, you owe them more than an apology -- you owe them restitution.

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Civil War Documents Shown For 1st Time

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 11.26.2012 | DC
Read More: Library of Congress, Robert E. Lee, Video, Civil War, Dc Around Town, American Civil War, U.S. Civil War, Library of Congress Civil War in America, Civil War in America, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Letters and diaries from those who lived through the Civil War offer a new glimpse at the arguments that split the nation 150 years ago ...

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A New View of Custer

Mark Kass, PhD | Posted 01.09.2013 | Books
Read More: Civil War Custer, George Armstrong Custer, Civil War, Custer, American History, American Civil War, Historical Non-Fiction, Larry Mcnurty, Larry McMurtry Custer, Books News
Mark Kass, PhD

Larry McMurtry's work, even with the lush, evocative, and plentiful period pictures, is a difficult read because it lacks a foundational and historical logic.

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Civil War Banjo Contest At Antietam

AP | Posted 06.22.2012 | DC
Read More: American Civil War, Civil War, Banjo, Washington DC Travel, Civil War Banjo Antietam Maryland, Civil War Banjo, U.S. Civil War, Maryland Travel, Maryland, Video, DC News

SHARPSBURG, Md. -- A weekend conference at the Antietam National Battlefield is exploring the link between the banjo and the Civil War. The National ...

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Victoria Infante

The Mexican Celebration That's Not Mexican At All

HuffingtonPost.com | Victoria Infante | Posted 05.04.2012 | Latino Voices
Read More: David Hayes-Bautista, David Hayes Bautista, Video, Civil War, Cinco-De-Mayo, Battle of Puebla, Ucla, An American Tradition, American Civil War, Cinco De Mayo, Latino Voices News

Cinco de Mayo is celebrated across the United States as a tradition of Mexican origin. And it is during late April and May that Mexican beer and tequi...

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PHOTOS: Civil War Tourism

AP | BRUCE SMITH | Posted 04.06.2012 | Travel
Read More: Fort Sumter Tourism, Fort Sumter, Video, Civil War, South Carolina Travel, US Destinations, American Civil War, Travel News

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- One of America's most famous historic sites has again made history as a record 328,000 visitors took the tour boat last year to Fo...

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'American Restoration' Puts American Civil War Cannon Back In Action

Posted 04.10.2012 | TV
Read More: TV Canada, History, Video, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Cannon, American Restoration, American Civil War, Tv Replay, TV News

Here's a tip for anyone standing next to a cannon: If someone looks like they might be about to fire it, stand way back. Not everyone did that on ...

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Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 08.21.2011 | Books
Read More: Confederacy, Germany, Victoria Cross, Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind, William Faulkner, Confederate Flag, American Civil War, US History, German History, Atlantic Monthly, Yankees, National Socialism, Books News
Franz-Stefan Gady

Civil War re-enactors take heed. I have perfected the Rebel yell: Oweeeeeeyaaahhooooo!!! That's me after reading Yoni Applebaum's piece, "Confedera...

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Confederate Group Fighting For Confederate Flag On Southern License Plates

AOL Weird News | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 11.15.2011 | Weird News
Read More: Texas, Kentucky, Florida, American Civil War, Douglas Dawson, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Vanity Plates, License Plates, Weird News News

If the Sons of Confederate Veterans have their way, the South will rise again on license plates in three more southern states. The group, whose mem...

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Myth, Martyrdom And The American Civil War

Posted 06.27.2011 | Religion
Read More: Civil War, Martyrdom, Good Friday, Abraham Lincoln Assassination, Jesus, Slavery, Abraham Lincoln, Christianity, American Civil War, Religion News

By John Farmer Jr. Religion News Service (RNS) "Are you a Yankee or a rebel?" That question, asked of me at recess by a ring of third- and f...

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Before Chickamauga

Carolyn Vega | Posted 06.13.2011 | New York
Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Letters, American Civil War, The Morgan Library & Museum, Civil War Correspondence, Andrew Johnson Letter, Abraham Lincoln Letter, Andrew Johnson, New York News
Carolyn Vega

With the Battle of Chickamauga still a week away, Abraham Lincoln wrote to the military governor of occupied Tennessee, and later president, Andrew Johnson.

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Why The U.S. Is Still Fighting The Civil War

TIME | Posted 06.12.2011 | Politics
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150 years later, Americans have lost that clarity about the cause of the Civil War, the most traumatic and transformational event in U.S. history, whi...

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PHOTOS: Civil War Commemoration At Fort Sumter

Posted 06.12.2011 | Politics
Read More: Fort Sumter Reenactment, American Civil War, Fort Sumter, Firing on Fort Sumter, Civil War 150th, Civil War, Civil War Battles, Civil War History, Politics News

Two glowing beams of light were cast into the sky early this morning at South Carolina's Fort Sumter, the site where the first shots of the American C...

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New York Ignores Its Civil War History

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: History, New York Times, American Civil War, Fernando Wood, Civil War, Constitution, Slavery, New York News
Alan Singer

The standard narrative is that slavery was a Southern institution and the north, including New York fought to preserve the union and end slavery. But the reality of history is never so simple.

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Echoes From Gettysburg: How We Can Save Our Country

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Arizona Shooting, Gabrielle Giffords, Tuscon Shooting, Division in America, Gettysburg Address, American Dream, The Broken Covenant, Religion News
Richard T. Hughes

To put it bluntly, by placing their individual interests ahead of the common good, the American people have betrayed the American dream.

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They Are Fighting Because We "Are Down There"

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Suicide Bombers, War, Clausewitz, American Civil War, Rethink Afghanistan, War in Iraq, Counterinsurgency, Obama Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, World News
Franz-Stefan Gady

A simple statement is essential in understanding people's willingness to lay down their lives and pick up weapons to fight Western forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Huck Finn's N-Word: Preserving Artistic Integrity or Ethnic Property Rights?

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Literature, Civil War, American Civil War, Huck Finn, Race, Racial Discrimination, Civil Rights, Racial Profiling, Racial Politics, N-Word, Literacy, Blacks, Slavery, Racism, Mark Twain, African-Americans, Censorship, African Americans, African-American Issues, Home News
Irene Monroe

As Americans we have a hard time talking about race in this country when the n-word is not involved. And when this epithet is, predictably, we behave schizophrenically.

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The Evolution of Warfare and the US Navy's "Rail Gun"

Dave Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: American Civil War, US Navy, Rail Gun, Dresden, Military History, World War II, London, Battle of Britain, Politics News
Dave Taylor

I was reading, with great interest, the announcement that the U.S. Navy has demonstrated a new electromagnetic "rail gun" that can shoot projectiles at Mach 7 for a distance of 100 miles. It's yet another milestone on the ever-increasing abstraction of warfare.

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Politicians Will Not Change The World

John Perkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: History, Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln, United States, Democratic, American Civil War, Woodrow Wilson, Republican, Politics News
John Perkins

Many of you have asked how I feel about the Obama administration . . . In short: the fact that we moved from a conservative Republican oilman from Te...

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