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What the Founders Feared

What the Founders Feared

"The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." — James Madison (1751-1836)...

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What Is The Seawee Shell Ring?

What Is The Seawee Shell Ring?

Visitors come from all over the globe to see Charleston’s beautiful, centuries-old historic buildings. Yet very few people — even locals — ever make the half-hour drive to Awendaw to see what may be the Lowcountry’s oldest, and most mysterious, man-made structure: the Sewee Shell Ring. A one-mile footpath through the Francis Marion National Forest ends at the ring’s quiet, isolated spot adjacent...

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What Is The Seawee Shell Ring?

Visitors come from all over the globe to see Charleston’s beautiful, centuries-old historic buildings. Yet very few people — even locals — ever make the half-hour drive to Awendaw to see what may be the Lowcountry’s oldest, and most mysterious, man-made structure: the...

What the Founders Feared

"The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." — James Madison (1751-1836) America today would terrify the Founding Fathers. Armed troops roam the streets of major cities, masked government agents arrest people...

News From Around the South, 11/10 to 11/17

GEORGIA: The Military History Hidden Under Today’s Chamblee This week, on Veterans Day 2025, angling through 5 p.m. Atlanta traffic with my aging vehicle in need of repair, I was attempting to get to the Chamblee dealership before it closed. Credit: Jeff Hullinger The...

Can the President Disrupt Free Speech?

While the country's attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which purports to designate the ideology of antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" and directs...

How Ken Burns’ Revolutionary War Series Reveals the War Within

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to unpredictable alliances, the war was less a straight line to freedom and more...

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