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Summers Is Not the Biggest Reveal From the Epstein Emails
If you followed the twists and turns of the Jeffrey Epstein saga over the last few weeks, you already know that several prominent...
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News From Around the South, 12/1 to 12/8
FLORIDA: Bill establishing Black History Museum Board clears Senate hurdle Will 2026 be the year? With Florida’s Museum of Black History soon taking...
New biography examines Preston Brooks, the SC congressman behind an infamous Senate floor beating
Nearly 170 years after South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks raised his cane and beat abolitionist Charles Sumner bloody on the Senate floor, the pro-slavery lawmaker behind one of America’s most notorious acts of political violence is getting a full-length biography. Historian Paul Quigley widens the lens in his new examination, “The Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence,...
Une fête française: Lowcountry’s connection to the ‘first’ Thanksgiving
BEAUFORT — The story of the first Thanksgiving in North America nearly perfectly embodies the truism that history is written by the victors....
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...