HeyJaredHistoria Nobis by Athelstan Founder
Thoughts and musings on the English medieval, early modern, and British Empire/World War periods. Specific emphasis on the Anglo-Saxon era.
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- Sep 27, 2026
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Judging the past via the present (opens the original)
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Peasants’ Revolt (opens the original)
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Black Confederates (opens the original)
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The notion of Black Confederates—tens of thousands of African Americans serving as armed soldiers for the Confederacy—is a modern myth, not a Civil War reality. It emerged in the 1970s, largely from Lost Cause writers, neo‑Confederates, and ultra‑right activists seeking to sanitise the Confederacy’s racial ideology. The claim typically appears in a sensational form: “The South didn’t hate Black people—100,000 Black soldiers fought for the Confederacy!”<div class="you
The Lost Cause... (opens the original)
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The Lost Cause narrative—the claim that the American Civil War was fundamentally not about slavery—rests on a single, fatal flaw: it rejects the basic method of history itself. This is not a matter of competing interpretations or alternative perspectives. It is, quite simply, ahistoric. And when its practitioners are pressed to apply their reasoning consistently, their intellectual dishonesty becomes undeniable.How We Know HistoryHistory is built on primary sources—written and material e
A historical musing (opens the original)
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