Tag: Andrew Jackson

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Joseph Ford Cotto, 1st Baron Cotto, GGGCR
Runaway Masters: A True Story of Slavery, Freedom, Triumph, and Tragedy beyond 1619 and 1776
Monee, Ill.: self-published, 2021

Some time ago I considered writing a white advocate-style article about one of America’s longest-running brush wars. My research centered on the outstanding book, History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 by John K. Mahon. I didn’t write the article because I thought that the conflict could only be packaged as ancient history, an old-style Indian War best memorialized in some campy Western film from the 1930s. (more…)

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Greg Grandin
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019

In this excellent and quick-to-read book about the border wall and its place in history, Greg Grandin builds upon the work of historian Frederic Jackson Turner (1861–1932). (more…)

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ORLANDO, FL — There is a long history of struggle between groups in Florida that has been largely buried by general ignorance and presentism. Americans have not seen their states, let alone their entire country, as a product of racial war and conflict in a long time, not since the days of Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard. (more…)

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A nation loses its cohesiveness and identity once its racial homogeneity has been compromised.

You really cannot find a better benchmark for where someone stands politically these days than by asking him what he thinks of the above statement.  (more…)

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Select faces of the Founding Fathers and former Presidents of the United States decorate our nation’s currency. The selection process is fairly basic: do something great, something worth celebrating, something worth remembering for America.

Andrew Jackson, the son of Irish immigrants, was born into poverty. In 1787, at the age of 20, he earned admission to the North Carolina bar and later moved to Tennessee where he practiced law.  (more…)

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XXVII
Paideuma

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Part 4 of 5

XXIII
Resistance

JEFFERSON writing to Adams (or vice versa) noted that before their time hardly anyone had bothered to think about political organization or the organization of government. (more…)