More stories from American Civil War
Yardbarkerflipped into Yardbarker SportsNHL Sweaters: Best and Worst of the Columbus Blue Jackets
Sweaters and hockey have been synonymous with each other since the infancy of the sport. Teams have been identified by their iconic colors and …
Opinion: Two sides emerge in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump: Preservation vs. revenge
Stephen Marche is the author of The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump is one of those moments that later counterfactual histories will start with. What if the bullet hadn’t grazed his ear? What if the shot had passed three inches closer? …
J. D. Vance’s Empty Nationalism
To believe that “people will not fight for abstractions” is to forget what makes America special. As the Civil War began to rage in 1861, the American press became enraptured with an idea—that Giuseppe Garibaldi, the gallant Italian nationalist and erstwhile New Yorker who had become famous fighting …
