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Vor 3 Tagen · What a flood of association overpowers us in the reminiscence of those once familiar words, “President Davis!” How they carry us back away “from all the commonplace chaff of life,” from the ignoble atmosphere of “time-servers and self-seekers” to the glorious days of our struggle for an independent national existence, and ...
Vor 5 Tagen · In his two-volume memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881), former Confederate president Jefferson Davis argued that slavery “was in no wise the cause of the conflict” and that slaves had been “contented with their lot.” He too declared the Lost Cause not lost: “Well may we rejoice in the regained ...
Vor einem Tag · In March, Davis vetoed a bill to create a commander in chief for the army, but he selected General Robert E. Lee to be his military advisor. They formed a close relationship, and Davis relied on Lee for counsel until the end of the war.
Vor 3 Tagen · Brian Lyman. June 3, 2024 6:59 am. Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States of America, a white supremacist government, from 1861 to 1865. Since 1901, Alabama has marked Jefferson Davis’ Birthday as a state holiday on the first Monday in June. (Netterville Briggs via Getty Images)
Vor 19 Stunden · One was an invitation to a congress of newly emancipated Spanish-American states; another an urgent appeal to aid Hungary in a revolution aiming at the restoration of her ancient and illustrious independence; another, the project of a joint guarantee of Cuba to Spain in concurrence with France and Great Britain; and more recently, an ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Relying on the existing state and local FWP offices, the project employed over 150 federal writers and editors across the Southeast. This laudatory experiment in social documentary led to the collection of over 1,200 life histories in which Southerners shared their own stories of life during the Great Depression.
Vor 3 Tagen · Foundry workers adjust pieces of Charlottesville's bronze monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee atop a furnace to heat them in preparation for melting the statue on Oct. 21, 2023.
