The Kindness of Strangers - I’ve been playing in the public arenas of politics and commentary, of columns and television and campaigns, for long enough not to pretend that it was all warm and fuzzy back then. It was mean and sometimes scary. But mostly not. Even during the “hottest” times, we mostly managed to separate the professional from the […]
News from Around the South, 4/13 to 4/20 - SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘Just wonderful’: USC musicians perform at Congaree National Park for country’s 250th birthday In a celebration of American music, the student performers also hoped to introduce more people to classical performances HOPKINS — The birds that usually sing at Congaree National Park had accompaniment Saturday from jazz musicians, saxophonists, singers and woodwinds. The […]
American Heresy - The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by […]
Dangers of Disease in American Revolutionary War - As America celebrates 250 years of independence, here is a look back at the price the Revolutionary War service members paid for freedom. Besides being killed by the enemy, the thing most feared by soldiers during the war was dying from disease — and with good reason. Historians have said that many more died from […]
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 slavery — and former President Abraham Lincoln. “So,” President Lincoln is reported to have greeted her, “you’re the woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” History doesn’t indicate whether Lincoln made […]
