The Guild Review

I am not a Southerner, but I am something of a guest of the South. Although an Arizona native, I went to school in Texas (twice), ...

I understand the sentiments behind flying the Confederate Battle Flag (or, at least some of them). People are fed up with excessive federal...

I currently reside in Virginia .  I have a son who was born here.  But I struggle with the state's Southern identity, an identity which,...

Please forgive the lack of posting lately; I've been moving from College Station, TX, to Charlottesville, VA.  Having previously lived ...

Though a participant in the revolutions of 1848 (about which I have my qualms ), Carl Schurz strikes me as the embodiment of much that is g...

I was recently doing some reading on Reconstruction and I happened upon a book review by Jean Edward Smith of Eric Foner's Forever Fr...