Modern ‘fire eaters’ revive the language — and tactics — of pre-Civil War resistance to federal law. B etween 1855 and 1859, a guerrilla war broke out in Kansas, ignited by pro-slavery Democrats who ...
LIKE MOST SOLDIERS, I am drawn to the history of the Civil War—not just the outcomes of the key battles but the war’s political prehistory as well. To learn what led to the first shots at Fort Sumter, ...
John Adams discusses his book, "The Old Alcalde: Life and Times of a Texas Fire-Eater, Oran Milo Roberts", a biography of an influential and controversial figure in Texas history who served as a judge ...
In the decade before the Civil War, slave-owning men known as “Fire Eaters” started ratcheting up public discourse in stark, divisive, all or nothing terms. They cast their interests not as political ...
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