App Puts Battlefield Maps at Fingertips
Just in time for the fall travel season, the American Battlefield Trust is deploying a smartphone app that will help heritage travelers explore the nation’s Civil War battlefields and understand the fighting that transpired on them. The Trust’s Civil War Battle Maps...
John McCain and Me
About four years ago, I was browsing through one of Manhattan’s last remaining independent bookstores, when my cellphone rang. I didn’t recognize the incoming telephone number, with its 202 area code, but I assumed it was a Fox News colleague from our...
Civil War Tattoos Hedge Against Death
In 1876, on Oak Street between Oliver and James, a long-lost block of lower Manhattan that now lies underneath a housing project built in the 1950s, a New York Times reporter found the sign he had been looking for—“Tattooing Done Here.” Inside the shop, which he...
News From Around the South 8/20 to 8/27
TENNESSEE: Black Pastors, Confederate Descendants Share Civil War History in Tennessee Town FRANKLIN, Tenn. — African-American pastors recently touring a restored Confederate plantation here stopped to look at the rocks in the grass near a path between the ivory...Obiter Dicta
In recent days, the government in America has not only failed to protect the freedom of speech, it has attacked Read More
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VIRGINIA: Mobile museum bringing Virginia history across the Commonwealth CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — It is a truck on a mission to teach young students and families about Virginia history. While Read More