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Former country in North America formed by the Southern United States during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
The claim that “Jingle Bells” is racist rests not on the familiar melody or modern renditions but on documented evidence that the song’s earliest known public performance occurred in a 19th‑century bl...
The percentage of Americans who owned slaves on the eve of the Civil War depends on how you define the denominator. Nationwide, counting all people or all families yields low single- or single-digit p...
The Ku Klux Klan was created twice in distinct forms: an original group founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865–66 by a small band of Confederate veterans, and a separate national revival organized in ...
James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) was an American composer, organist and minstrel songwriter best known for publishing “The One Horse Open Sleigh” (later retitled “Jingle Bells”) in 1857; the song’s mel...
West Virginia separated from Virginia during the Civil War largely because western counties opposed Virginia’s decision to join the Confederacy and because of long‑standing economic, social and politi...
The Confederate battle flag originated as a military emblem of the Confederate armies during the Civil War, a rebellion whose constitution explicitly protected slavery, and over time that banner was r...
West Virginia split from Virginia during the Civil War chiefly because northwestern Virginians opposed Virginia’s 1861 decision to secede from the Union and long-standing regional grievances over repr...
The Ku Klux Klan is not and never has been the formal property of a single political party, though its alliances have shifted across eras: it emerged after the Civil War aligned against Republican Rec...
James Lord Pierpont wrote and published the song originally titled “The One Horse Open Sleigh” in 1857; it was later retitled “Jingle Bells” and became a global standard . Pierpont was born in 1822, t...
Albert Pike remains a contested historical figure whose career combined literary prominence in Freemasonry with active support for the Confederacy and documented racist positions; modern controversies...
Albert Pike (1809–1891) was a multifaceted figure: a Northern-born lawyer, editor, and poet who became a Confederate brigadier general and the long‑time Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite,...
Expulsion of a Member of Congress is an extraordinary, constitutionally authorized sanction: Article I, Section 5 gives each chamber the power to "punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with...
August Belmont was a German‑Jewish immigrant who built a major New York banking house and opposed slavery in principle while prioritizing the preservation of the Union and commercial ties with the Sou...
No sitting or former United States president has been formally charged with treason; the historical record shows serious treason prosecutions have involved other high officials and rare, narrowly defi...
Available sources show August Belmont was a New York banker and Democratic political leader whose business and political interests intersected with the Southern cotton economy and merchants who traded...
President Trump announced in June 2025 that the Pentagon would restore former names for seven Army bases that had been changed in 2023 as part of a broader renaming effort; Defense Secretary Pete Hegs...
In U.S. history, available sources state that 21 members of Congress have been expelled: 15 from the Senate and six from the House of Representatives (Wikipedia; HeinOnline; Senate site) . The vast ma...
There is no established instance in United States history where martial law was declared or used with the explicit, successful purpose of canceling or directly overturning a regularly scheduled federa...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked roughly 30 times in U.S. history, but those invocations split into two clear categories: episodes that produced significant, on‑the‑ground federal troop deploymen...
Economic and cultural divisions—mountain geography, different markets and settlement patterns, and the scarcity of slavery in the trans‑Allegheny counties—made western Virginians feel politically and ...