Outside the Beltway

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

This one was in Tuskegee, AL (and this isn’t a photography post).

You can’t take the politics out of politics.

If only we knew why Mississippi chose to join the Confederacy…

It’s easy if you try.

Some historical context.

Another state has declared him an insurrectionist.

The serial fabulist becomes an ignominious footnote.

A case in misplaced priorities.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

America survived a civil war and the turmoil of the 1960s. Can we rebound again?

It goes deeper than base names.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

The laying out of the case begins.

Very little progress has been made towards racial justice.

A man most have never heard of is being reassessed more than a half-century after his death.

A provision of the 14th Amendment to keep Civil War generals out of office is back in play.

It’s always a good idea to reread a text before referencing it, especially if you’re a history Ph.D. like Newt Gingrich

We’re likely to see more instances like the Capitol Riot and the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings.

Another example for the conversation.

Legislatures and school boards politicize what our kids are taught.

Specifically: the former confederacy and Democratic dominance.

Congress forgot to disestablish a Creek Reservation created by treaty in 1833 and 1856 when it made Oklahoma a state in 1909.

A controversial monument in Little Italy has been destroyed.

An accomplished racist will no longer be honored by the university.