The Jefferson Davis's Citizenship Restoration Story

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Love, Loss, and the Mississippi Swamplands: Jefferson Davis’s First Marriage

Not every love story ends the way we wish it would.

Some begin with the brightest hope… and end in heartbreak we can still feel generations later.

As the great-great-grandson of Jefferson Davis, I, Dr. Howard Edward Haller, grew up hearing the personal, deeply human stories that often get left out of textbooks. Stories told to me by my Granny Lucy—his great-granddaughter—who knew these weren’t j...

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The Love Story Few Know About: Jefferson Davis and Sarah Knox Taylor

My granny, the little girl sitting on her grandfather's (President Jefferson Davis) knee

In the grand sweep of American history, personal stories often get buried beneath headlines of war and politics. But for me, those deeply personal family stories have always been at the heart of what history truly is.

I’m Dr. Howard Edward Haller—Jefferson Davis’s great-great-grandson—and I want to share one...

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