Civil War wrecks vanish, then drone finds buried ‘anomalies’ on land, SC data shows
Shipwrecks frequently get lost, but a search for four missing Civil War blockade runners off South Carolina has come to the unusual conclusion that at least three are now buried on land. The fourth one is still unaccounted for off Fort Moultrie, but it’s also likely...
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 names emerged from the tranche of emails that the Epstein estate released. Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers,...
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FLORIDA: Bill establishing Black History Museum Board clears Senate hurdle Will 2026 be the year? With Florida’s Museum of Black History soon taking shape in St. Johns County, state lawmakers are moving closer to setting up a board to run it. Sen. Tom...
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...Obiter Dicta
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FLORIDA: Bill establishing Black History Museum Board clears Senate hurdle Will 2026 be the year? With Florida’s Museum of Black History soon taking shape in St. Johns County, state lawmakers are moving Read More