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The Case of the Missing Monuments, or None Dare Call It Treason

Posted on July 5, 2010, 10:59 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Cruising US-1 through the South (aka the Jefferson Davis Highway in places), way too much Confederate commemoration, way too fuzzy on actual history, and virtually no offsetting commemoration of slavery and its aftermath.

Tags: African American History Monument, Andrew Johnson, Brown v. Board of Education, capitols, Chapel Hill, Civil Rights Memorial, Civil War, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Cloudcuckoo Land, Columbia SC, Confederacy, Confederate States of America, Confederates, CSA, Dixie Highway, Dizzy Gillespie, federal aid highways, Federal Highway, freedom fighters, Highway 1, highway names, James Ostrowski, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis Highway, Jim Crow, Key West, Mary McLeod Bethune, monumentation, monuments, monuments at state capitols, nationhood, Old Dominion State, Oliver Hill, Palmetto State, President Andrew Johnson, President Ulysses Grant, Raleigh NC, rebels, Richmond VA, slavery, Spottiswood Robinson, Stars and Bars, state capitols, Stonewall Jackson, Strom Thurmond, trail names, treason, U.S. Highway System, Ulysses Grant, Underground Railway, University of North Carolina, US-1
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“Combatants”: Detained But Untried

Posted on February 1, 2010, 10:34 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Do we want our presidents empowered to imprison people simply for their beliefs?

Tags: Al Quaeda, anti-Muslim bigotry, Barack Obama, Boumediene v. Bush, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, combatants, detainees, Dwight Eisenhower, George Washington, Guantanamo, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, law of war, repatriation, Third Geneva Convention, Ulysses Grant, war
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The Big Picture and the Closeup

Posts Tagged ‘Ulysses Grant’

The Case of the Missing Monuments, or None Dare Call It Treason

“Combatants”: Detained But Untried

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