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  • The Secret Wealthy Family Who Started The Civil War: The Belmonts

    03/11/2025 7:52:10 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 24 replies
    This secret wealthy family played a masterful political game when the American Civil War erupted, rebranding themselves as a Union crew while maintaining Southern business interests through their Democratic Vigilant Association. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Introduction 1:08 Chapter 1: The Big Belmonts 5:26 Chapter 2: The Gregarious German 9:00 Chapter 3: Dining In Democracy 12:24 Chapter 4: Entering High Society 16:06 Chapter 5: The Next Generation When 24-year-old German Jewish immigrant August Belmont Sr. arrived in New York in 1837 with the Rothschild family's backing, he began one of history's most spectacular rises to power. Within months, his August Belmont and Company...
  • Battle over the past rages on in an evolving South

    02/24/2005 7:46:32 AM PST · by .cnI redruM · 48 replies · 1,104+ views
    Christian Science Monitor ^ | from the February 24, 2005 edition | By Patrik Jonsson
    RALEIGH, N.C. – Bronzed Johnny Rebs, sprinting across a Capitol lawn, charging soundlessly for the ideals of the "lost cause," have long been seen as a quaint and largely harmless part of this region's heritage. Today, doubts rise alongside pride in regard to these sculpted heroes. A school board declines to name a new high school in Cherokee County after Georgia's Civil War governor. Floridians question why Confederate soldiers adorn a water tower. Even the word "South," in some quarters, has become a slur - a convenient repository of national guilt over the exploitation of Africans in the Cotton Belt...