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The Unfinished Work of Memorial Day
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, This is Memorial Day Weekend, a weekend where we remember those who died in the service of our country. It is not a day to thank the living veterans, that day is...
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From Limited War to Total War: The American Civil War Pt.1
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As always I continue to revise my Gettysburg and Civil War text and it looks like I will have to split the text into at least tow volumes. I am posting about half of a...
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From Limited War to Total War: The American Civil War Pt.2
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As always I continue to revise my Gettysburg and Civil War text and it looks like I will have to split the text into at least two volumes. I am posting the second half...
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Can We All do Better? We Will be Remembered in Spite of Ourselves
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am a bit late posting today. I was out late last night and attended a funeral this afternoon. But anyway, over the past few days, amid all the political mayhem going...
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To be Dedicated to the Task Remaining: Gettysburg and the 33rd Anniversary of...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I spent the 33rd anniversary of being a commissioned officer in the United States Military leading the last portion of a Staff Ride at Gettysburg with the officers,...
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More Musings of a Realist in Wonderland
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I have just a short thought for the day and plan on writing more again tomorrow and in the coming days. In the days before I travelled to Gettysburg and today I have...
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From Limited War to a People’s War
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Here is another reworked section of my Civil War and Gettysburg text. It deals with how the how the American Civil War changed from being a limited war to a people’s...
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The Power of Soft Power: Union Diplomacy in the Civil War
Charles Francis Adams Friends of Padre Steve’s World, This is another section of my Gettysburg and Civil War text. For those that have been following my posts on this subject Diplomacy is a key part...
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We Hold These Truths… A Proposition of Liberty and Equality
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today is the 240th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Indpendence. For me it is the truth both of a concept of Liberty which must continuously be...
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Becoming What We Should Be
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Having completed, with the exception of editing and circulating some hard copies of the first volume of my Civil War text A Great War in a Revolutionary Age of Change,...
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Je Suis Francais
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, One again the oldest ally and friend of the United States has been attacked by terrorists. While the details about the attacker are still scarce, this much is know; an...
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I Alone Can Fix It: Trump’s Dictatorial Message
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Last night I watched the entirety of Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. I am not going to go ever all of the details of it,...
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Trump and the Return of the Know Nothings
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Mark Twain reportedly said that “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” One can see that in the nomination of Donald Trump as the nominee of the...
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A Cyclorama, a Cornerstone, and a Proposition
Friends of Padre Steve’s World I have been at Gettysburg this weekend and yesterday was spent doing the Staff Ride on the battlefield. Normally we get all of the first two days of the battle done and...
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Opposing Ideas of Liberty: Slave Power vs. the Declaration of Independence
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, This is something that I pulled from the text that I am currently working on regarding the role of race, religion, ideology and politics in the Civil War era. It deals...
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The Dream at 53: Still Laboring for the New Birth of Freedom
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Since I am out of town this week I am going to post a short article tonight. Today was the fifty-third anniversary of one of the greatest speeches in American history....
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The Importance of the Worker: Labor Day 2016
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, It is Labor Day and so I am going back to the vault to remember what this day is all about. By the way, it has nothing to do with the troops, or nationalism, or the...
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When Political Parties Implode: “I refused to unite with a bunch of traitors...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Instead of making direct comments regarding the developments in the current 2016 Presidential campaign, especially the repeated charges by Donald Trump that the...
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When Political Parties Implode: “Whom the gods intend to destroy, they first...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, This is the last section that I am posting regarding the breakup of the Whig and Democratic Parties in the years leading up to the Civil War. I think this one is very...
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A Trip to Gettysburg at the End of a Polarizing Election
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am taking a group of my students to Gettysburg this weekend and the timing is good for me as it will take me to a place that helps me put things in perspective,...
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