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“All Slaves …Shall Be Free”

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Fred Zilian

(This essay was originally published in the Newport Daily News on December 31, 2012, as “Emancipation changed the war, and the nation.”) One hundred and fifty years ago today President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect, stating that “all persons held … Continue reading →

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Elisha Hunt Rhodes, as Officer, Sees Action at Antietam and Fredericksburg

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Fred Zilian

(This essay was originally published in the Newport Daily News on December 17, 2012, as “Soldier’s Words Still Haunting.” The second half of 1862, 150 years ago, saw some momentous events in the life of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, a Civil … Continue reading →

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Integrity

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Fred Zilian

(This address was given to the Portsmouth Abbey School community at the Veteran’s Day commemoration, November 9, 2012.) Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honor of addressing you in this Veteran’s Day Commemoration, probably my last one with you. So … Continue reading →

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Seeds of Chinese Liberalization, Made in America

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Fred Zilian

(This essay abridged was originally published in the Wall Street Journal on October 30, 2012, as “Seeds of Chinese Liberalization, Made in America.”) Right here in our cozy, conservative boarding school, we are unconsciously and with no malicious intent sowing … Continue reading →

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Forever Free

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Fred Zilian

(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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The Sleeping Serpent of Slavery

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Fred Zilian

(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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Fifth Grade Separated by Two Generations

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Fred Zilian

(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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It Is “All for the Union”: The Diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Fred Zilian

(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 →

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The Civil War’s Most Accomplished Newporter

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Fred Zilian

(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 →

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Rhode Island Joins March to War

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Fred Zilian

(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 →

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