News From Around the South 3/2 to 3/9
SOUTH CAROLINA: Civil War Shipwreck Wine Tasted By Experts CHARLESTON — A bottle of wine recovered intact four years ago from the 1864 wreck of a Civil War blockade runner that sank off the coast of Bermuda was uncorked and sipped by a panel of experts on Friday...
Obama's War on Transparency
On Inauguration Day 2009, the White House website declared President Obama’s administration would become “the most open and transparent in history.” By the end of the next day, Obama had issued high-profile orders pledging “a new era” and...News From Around the South 2/23 to 3/2
SOUTH CAROLINA: Earthen Confederate Fortifications Visible in Charleston CHARLESTON – The earth mounds can turn up anywhere in the Lowcountry, it seems – odd-shaped crowns or crooked rows, a little too large and too strange to be natural. They are haunts...Intelligence-Gathering in the Civil War Era
By the early to mid-1800s, the world was coming into its own, with many nations having shaken off (or were in the process of shaking off) tyrants and monarchies. Governments and militaries were re-shaped and reformed, but the age-old art of intelligence...Obiter Dicta
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LOUISIANA: YouTube channel Louisiana Dread preserves Southern culture by sharing history, folktales Bayou-born YouTube channel Louisiana Dread is serving up swamp monsters, gumbo reviews and history lessons in an effort Read More