It was just over 142 years ago when General William Tecumseh Sherman burned Columbia, South Carolina and sent a battle-hardened military unit toward nearby Sumter, presumably to do the same. My then 16-year-old great-grandfather, Andrew Jackson “Jack” Moses, rode out to defend his hometown, along with other teenagers, invalids, old men, and the disabled and [...]

Your ordinary run-of-the mill historian will tell you that John C. Calhoun, having defended the bad and lost causes of state rights and slavery, deserves to rest forever in the dustbin of history. Nothing could be further from the truth. No American public figure after the generation of the Founding Fathers has more to say [...]