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Forever Free
(This essay was originally published in the Newport Daily News on September 22, 2012.) One hundred fifty years ago today, President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in rebel held territory and changing the nature of the Civil … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civil War, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Fred Zilian, Lincoln, Lincoln's cabinet, slavery, Zilian
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The Sleeping Serpent of Slavery
(This essay was originally published in the Newport Daily News on August 29, 2012.) From our Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the start of the Civil War in 1861, slavery posed a fundamental contradiction to our American identity. How … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civil War, American slavery, Civil War, Fred Zilian, Frederick Douglass, George DeWolf, John Brown, slavery, slavery during the Civil War, slavery in Civil War, slavery in Rhode Island, slavery in the American Civil War, slavery in the Civil War, sleeping serpent, snake under the table
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Fifth Grade Separated by Two Generations
(The essay was originally published in the South Coast Insider as: “Fifth Grade Classrooms Gap, Separated by Two Generations,” August, 2012.) I do not remember having a poetry recital in Ms. Macaluso’s 5th grade class in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, … Continue reading
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Tagged education, Fred Zilian, generation gap, technology, technology in classroom
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It Is “All for the Union”: The Diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
(This essay was originally published in the Newport Daily News, July 26 & 27, 2012, as “R.I. Soldier Was Driven by Sense of Duty,” and “Faith in God, Union Kept Soldier Alive.” Highlighted in Ken Burns’ acclaimed documentary, The Civil … Continue reading
The Civil War’s Most Accomplished Newporter
(This essay was originally published on June 27, 2012, in the Newport Daily News as “Newport’s Gen. Stevens exemplified courage.”) The most famous Newporter of the Civil War was of Newport but not from Newport. Isaac Ingalls Stevens was born … Continue reading
The American Civil War: Beginning to the Battle of Shiloh
(This essay, entitled “Freedom, Unity Born in Conflict,” was published in the Newport Daily News on April 25, 2012) One hundred and fifty years ago, Americans fought, wounded, and killed each other in astounding numbers. The American Civil War began on April … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Albert Sidney Johnston, American Civil War, Battle of Shiloh, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate States of America, Fred Zilian, Freedom Unity Born in Conflict, James McPherson, Shelby Foote, Ulysses S. Grant, US Civil War, Zilian, Zilian Commentary, zilianblog
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The Causes of Peace
The terms war and peace can relate to many dimensions of society. This essay examines very briefly the causes of peace in the international state system: war and peace within states (intrastate conflict) and between states (interstate conflict). Political scientists … Continue reading
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Tagged better angels of our nature, causes of peace, causes of war, Charles Hildebolt, Dean Falk, Lincoln, peace, Peloponnesian War, Pinker, political idealism, political realism, power, power politics, South Sudan, war, war and peace, what causes peace?, Zilian, Zilian Commentary
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Letter from Abe Lincoln to President Obama, April 12, 2011
( This essay was published in the Newport Daily News, April 16, 2011, as “What Would Lincoln Think of U.S. Today?”) With the 150th anniversary of the bombardment of Ft. Sumter, on April 12, 1861, launching the Civil War, what … Continue reading
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Tagged Abe Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Fort Sumter, Fred Zilian, Lincoln, Zilian Commentary
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Rhode Island Joins March to War
(This essay was originally published in the Newport Daily News, May 26, 2012) After the South’s bombardment of Fort Sumter, on April 12, 1861, President Lincoln issued a call to arms on April 15 and established Rhode Island’s quota at … Continue reading →