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September 2022
June 2022
A brief summer hiatus
See you soon!
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Max Longley
May 2022
Reform in head and members
The Catholic Church should get better bishops, starting at the very top
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Battling the Popes and the hierarchy over the future of the Latin Mass
A Review of Stuart Chessman's Faith of Our Fathers
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Looking for Willis Lago
The slave-rescuer whose case made it to the Supreme Court - what guesses can we make about his subsequent career?
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April 2022
(Insert clever title with the word "monumental" here)
Review of Erin L. Thompson's Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
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My recent Civil War articles: The Reaper Man versus the antislavery minister
Cyrus McCormick tries to cut a swath through antislavery sentiment
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My recent Civil War articles: George Gordon
He helped beat up some official slave-hunters. Lincoln had him prosecuted, then pardoned.
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Edmund Wilson analyzes Lincoln in the shadow of the Cold War
Wilson's Lincoln was antislavery, an aspiring Caesar, and the creator of his role in a sanguinary drama.
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Was Thaddeus Stevens baptized into the Catholic Church just before his death?
Three out of four Catholic newspapers were hopeful that he was.
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North Carolina's Speaker Ban - A distorted legacy?
Let's go back to the Sixties, man, and see how we're not remembering it very well
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