Tag: South Carolina

• Robert Barnwell Rhett

  Part of the Cool Civil War Names series. We’ve got ourselves a good ol’ fashioned fire-eater here. And like fire itself, this brand of demagogue was a useful tool only until it burned its wielder. A lawyer by trade, Rhett entered public service in 1826 as a South Carolina state legislator and continued as state…

  Jul 21, 2013

  # Confederacy, Cool Civil War Names, history, Robert Barnwell Rhett, South Carolina, The Civil War

• Action Andrew Jackson

  When I look back on my nearly 19 years of classroom education in elementary, middle, high school, college, and grad school, I think I’ll remember my junior year AP U.S. history class in high school as my favorite. What I loved about it was what probably bored most other students in class: it was a…

  Apr 2, 2013

  # Andrew Jackson, books, history, John Calhoun, John Marshall, John Quincy Adams, presidents, review, Revolutionary War, South Carolina