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Suddenly Accountable: For Social Media Giants, the Party May Be Over
There is lore about the 1862 meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," — the influential novel about...
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News From Around the South, 4/6 to 4/13
Louisiana: Legislators could use their campaign cash for clothing if bill passes Louisiana lawmakers might lift a prohibition on using their...
Echoes of Shiloh: Myth, Media, and the Civil War Landscape
by M. A. Kleen “There were men from every nation laid on those bloody plains, Fathers, sons, and brothers were numbered with the slain” – “Shiloh’s Hill,” M.G. Smith, Company C, 2nd Texas Infantry The acting left something to be desired, and the animated maps were decidedly pre-digital, but in my adolescent mind, the 1987 Classic Images’ Civil War 125th Anniversary VHS on the battle of Shiloh...
Alabama man appeals 1991 murder conviction, citing evidence of trial attorney’s ties to KKK
Robin ‘Rocky’ Myers cites research that shows the man who represented him did work for Klan officials and spoke at KKK rallies. A former Alabama...
Disability rights group tells history of State Hospital through ‘people, not patients’
New history booklet tells what it was like to live on the Bull Street campus that opened in 1828 COLUMBIA, S.C. — To outsiders, the then-called...