I recently spent two weeks in my favorite place on earth, St. John, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. While reading a locally published magazine I was shocked — shocked! — to learn that I was apparently lied to as a child attending Pennsylvania public schools. Having played Little League baseball at Thaddeus Stevens Middle School, I was also taught the standard “history” of how enlightened Northerners from Pennsylvania and elsewhere died by the hundreds of thousands during the early 1860s solely because of their deep and compassionate concern for the plight o the black slaves in the southern states. There … Continue reading What? The Yankee Army is not the Savior of the Black Man?!