Bob Bird: Recon and the 14th Amendment

By BOB BIRD Most amateur history buffs ignore what happened after the misnamed “American Civil War”. Churchill said, “War is rattling good history, but peace makes poor reading.”  So, when an occupied peace was imposed upon the South, Americans look upon the era of 1865-77 as a time to “Go West, young man”, of cattle drives, […] The post Bob Bird: Recon and the 14th Amendment appeared first on Must Read Alaska.