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The Ugly Secrets of Fort Sumter, by @DougSmock71 forgottenbattles.substack.co…
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Benjamin Lincoln: George Washington’s Mostly Forgotten, But Highly Trusted General wessagussettpress.com/2026/1…
Benjamin Lincoln: George Washington’s Mostly Forgotten, But Highly Trusted General

Benjamin Lincoln: George Washington’s Mostly Forgotten, But Highly Trusted General

In one American town, Abraham Lincoln is not the main attraction at its annual Lincoln Day celebration. In Hingham, Massachusetts, the hometown of Benjamin Lincoln, reenactors from the town’s colon…

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WHITEWASH 7: Rethinking Reconstruction, by @DougSmock71 forgottenbattles.substack.co…
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WHITEWASH 5: Did We Steal the Indians’ Land? wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
WHITEWASH 5: Did We Steal the Indians’ Land?

WHITEWASH 5: Did We Steal the Indians’ Land?

The short answer is yes, but the story is complicated. For generations, American schoolchildren learned about the westward movement as an almost inevitable procession: pioneers crossed the Appalach…

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WHITEWASH 3: How Should We Remember the Mexican War? wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
WHITEWASH 3: How Should We Remember the Mexican War?

WHITEWASH 3: How Should We Remember the Mexican War?

The Mexican-American War (1846–1848) is commonly taught as a story of American expansion and military brilliance. General Winfield Scott landed at Veracruz and marched more than 200 miles inland to…

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2. America’s Racial History: Some Thoughts wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
WHITEWASH 2: America’s Racial History: Some Thoughts

WHITEWASH 2: America’s Racial History: Some Thoughts

The problem with the teaching of racial history in the United States today is often one of omission rather than outright fabrication. Efforts by President Donald Trump and some states are clearly f…

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1. Was the Constitution Really “We the People”? wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
WHITEWASH 1: Was the Constitution Really “We the People”?

WHITEWASH 1: Was the Constitution Really “We the People”?

The traditional story we learn about the Constitution emphasizes brilliant Founders creating a democratic government based on the ideals of Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke and Montesquieu…

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WHITEWASH: The Efforts to Rewrite Our History wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
WHITEWASH: The Efforts to Rewrite Our History

WHITEWASH: The Efforts to Rewrite Our History

The teaching of American history—whether in schools or through museums such as the Smithsonian—is under attack, caught in one of the most intense battles in decades over how we tell our national st…

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Pfc. Bill Smock: A Father-Son War Story wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
My Dad, an Army Muleskinner: A Father-Son War Story

My Dad, an Army Muleskinner: A Father-Son War Story

My dad displayed no military insignia on his car. He didn’t wear Army shirts or military caps. He didn’t fly American flags from his car windows. He never appeared in a parade or talked about his m…

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JFK, Israel, and the Bomb wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
JFK, Israel, and the Bomb

JFK, Israel, and the Bomb

From Israel’s creation in 1948 through the end of the Eisenhower administration in January 1961, it was United States policy to provide it political and economic support, but not significant milita…

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William Faulkner: We Still Live Our History wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
William Faulkner: We Still Live Our History

William Faulkner: We Still Live Our History

The Civil War is a powerful, brooding presence in the writings of William Faulkner. In book after book, tragic characters are trapped in the past by both staggering defeat in the Civil War and the …

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Did Joyce Really Need The Odyssey? wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
Did James Joyce Really Need The Odyssey?

Did James Joyce Really Need The Odyssey?

The sizzling hot movie in the hot mid-summer of 2026 was Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, a retelling of the Homer epic. The movie ranked very high on filmmaking, less well on storytelling, in my t…

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Saugus: One of the Best Industrial Museums Anywhere wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
Saugus: One of the Best Industrial Museums Anywhere

Saugus: One of the Best Industrial Museums Anywhere

One of the best places—arguably the best—in the world to see a reconstruction of a fully integrated 17th-century iron-manufacturing complex is in Saugus, Massachusetts, where early Puritan leaders …

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Carlos Marcello: The Strongest Suspect in the JFK Assassination wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
Carlos Marcello: The Strongest Suspect in the JFK Assassination

Carlos Marcello: The Strongest Suspect in the JFK Assassination

If Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone, the strongest organized crime suspect remains New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello. Marcello had both motive and capability. Attorney General Robert F. Ken…

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Angel Studio’s Take on The Young Washington wessagussettpress.com/2026/0…
Angel Studio’s Take on the Young Washington

Angel Studio’s Take on the Young Washington

It’s hard to believe that a major movie studio recently dramatized the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela, in which Indian warriors from the Great Lakes area ambushed and massacred a British Army. It w…

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3) I sent some money for a lottery today to Arrandiledge. My certification ticket drawed a costed $13. I has rained hard all evening.
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