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WEST VIRGINIA: On This Day, The American Middle Class Was Born In A Gunfight A dozen armed men wearing dark suits stepped off the noon train in...

How Disobeyed Orders Led to the Largest Confederate Surrender of the Civil War
When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, he surrendered an estimated 28,000 Confederate troops. Many remember this moment as the end of the American Civil War, but it wasn't the last army to give up to federal troops. Appomattox might have been the most famous surrender in the war, but it wasn't the largest....

Book Review: Rick Atkinson Makes the American Revolution Come Brilliantly Alive
THE FATE OF THE DAY: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780, by Rick Atkinson The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize...

‘Founding Mothers’ Day’ recognizes SC women’s contributions to The American Revolution
For the inaugural event, historians recalled the siege of Fort Motte, assisted by Rebecca Brewton Motte FORT MOTTE — When Patriot officers told...
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How Disobeyed Orders Led to the Largest Confederate Surrender of the Civil War
When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, he surrendered an estimated 28,000 Confederate troops. Many remember this moment as the end of the American Civil War, but it wasn't the last army...
Stop the Scam
Eager to accept a luxury airliner from the government of Qatar, President Donald Trump is testing the limits of Republicans on Capitol Hill. Usually eager to behave like the servile puppies that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) once described with scorn (before becoming one...
News From Around the South, 5/12 to 5/19
WEST VIRGINIA: On This Day, The American Middle Class Was Born In A Gunfight A dozen armed men wearing dark suits stepped off the noon train in Matewan, West Virginia, on Wednesday, May 19, 1920. Residents knew this was trouble. Out-of-work coal miners, in town to...
On Education, Mississippi Shows the Way
Mississippi leads the nation. That's not a typographical error. And it's not just a gotcha phrase, preparing the reader for learning that Mississippi leads the nation on all sorts of negative things. Once upon a time, that was true, and in some respects it still is....
‘Founding Mothers’ Day’ recognizes SC women’s contributions to The American Revolution
For the inaugural event, historians recalled the siege of Fort Motte, assisted by Rebecca Brewton Motte FORT MOTTE — When Patriot officers told Rebecca Brewton Motte on May 12, 1781, they needed to set fire to her house — which British soldiers had turned into a...