Showing results for: secession (page 16)
The secret history of American literature
Suzy Hansen
Mark Twain, meet Ulysses S. Grant! Hart Crane, meet Charlie Chaplin! Rachel Cohen talks about the most intriguing encounters in U.S. history.
Spain’s blow to al Qaeda
Geraldine Sealey
Letters
Salon Staff
Haven't white Southerners suffered enough? Anyway, slavery is irrelevant to the plot (and geography) of "Cold Mountain." Readers respond to Stephanie Zacharek's review.
Old times there are not forgotten
Sidney Blumenthal
Howard Dean, Ronald Reagan, CBS and the politics of apology.
The gentleman general
Allen Barra
Humorist Roy Blount Jr.'s slim biography of Robert E. Lee is touching and comprehensive, but he misses the boat on the Southern warrior's military genius. Most historians do.
The never ending war over slavery
Louise Witt
A new exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy tells of slaves who supported slavery. But if former Gov. Doug Wilder's dream comes true, the nation's first slavery museum will tell a different -- and harsher -- story.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to apostrophe catastrophes, Republican racism and the antiwar movement.
“Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War” by T.J. Stiles
Allen Barra
The latest and best-ever biography of Jesse James tears down the myth to reveal not a latter-day Robin Hood, but a greedy, press-savvy bandit.
Who was Hannah Crafts?
Timothy Davis
When Henry Louis Gates Jr. discovered a handwritten manuscript purported to be the first novel by a fugitive African-American woman slave, it was time to call in the literary detectives
Macedonia on the brink
Laura Rozen
Colin Powell urges peace, but a walk through the capital city reveals a country on the verge of civil war.
Which way L.A.?
Anthony York
In a crowded field of contenders, a white guy and a Latino vie to be the 21st century's Tom Bradley, in the city's first post-ethnic mayor's race.
Prague dissent
Bruce Shapiro
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold their annual meeting in the Czech Republic -- a country that exemplifies growing European inequality.
Civil war in Miami?
John Lantigua
The battle over Elian has led non-Cubans to threaten secession, and to back a recall drive against the mayor.
Misha Glenny's “The Balkans” and Michael Ignatieff's “Virtual War”
Max Garrone
Behind the bombings in Kosovo, two journalists find Western self-interest and self-deception about the physical sacrifice war requires.
“Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad” by David Haward Bain
Katharine Whittemore
It's sprawling and overloaded with facts, but this account of the building of the transcontinental railroad does justice to one of the great American achievements.
Get Uncle Sam off my back! and other misguided impulses
Gary Kamiya
American government-bashers like to wrap themselves in a constitutional flag. But Garry Wills argues that the Founders wanted a strong government, not a weak one.
Banned in Belgrade
Janelle Brown
The Web provides links to Serbian diatribes, Albanian liberation dispatches and Yugoslav radio you can't get in Yugoslavia.
Gentrification X
James Poniewozik
In its latest tribute to its readers' spending power, the New York Times Style section hails Wallpaper magazine, a style magazine for monied hipsters insulated from grubby, ejaculating masses.
21st: Let's Get This Straight: As Slate goes, so goes … Slate
Scott Rosenberg
Page: 16
Next »