News From Around the South 11/19 to 11/26

News From Around the South 11/19 to 11/26

VIRGINIA: Civil War History Survives in An Unlikely Place It was 1861, the early days of what would come to be called the Civil War. Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was professor of mathematics and president of the College of William & Mary, positions that didn’t mean...
D.C. Nurse Made Civil War Mark

D.C. Nurse Made Civil War Mark

Shirley Hallett was thinking a lot about her great-great-grandmother, Ellen Forbes, this Veterans Day. Forbes was a nurse in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and tended to wounded soldiers until she contracted malarial typhus and was sent back to her home in...
Even Astronauts Fear the Left

Even Astronauts Fear the Left

There are many reasons I pity today’s younger generation of Americans. Among them are: —The unconscionable debt we are leaving them. —The obliteration of male and female as separate and distinct categories — and the sexual confusion that is left in its wake....