The Vanishing Anti-War Left

by | Sep 5, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Barack Obama ran for president as the last of the red-hot pacifists, so it might have sounded preposterous to predict that after a few security briefings at the White House, President Obama would follow in the same policy footsteps of horrid warmonger George Bush,...

Civil War Medicine

by | Sep 4, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Shauna Devine spoke at the National Library of Medicine on “The Civil War, the Army Medical Museum, and the Surgeon General’s Library: Medical Practice and the Science of American Medicine.” Dr. Devine also contributed to the NLM’s book Hidden Treasure. You can read...

South's Malaria Cure

by | Sep 3, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Today, citizens, the topic shall be stinky feet – the South’s gift to the cause of good hygiene. Smelly feet, enclosed in dirty socks, were once as much a part of Dixie ambiance as patches of kudzu. You’d have to take a time machine back to the ’40s and ’50s to...

News from Around the South 8/26 to 9/2

by | Sep 2, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Tennessee: Fall Civil War Cruises Set CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — After an unusually wet summer across the Southeast, everyone is looking forward to drier fall weather. Soon brilliant colors will decorate the mountains surrounding Chattanooga. The Tennessee River Gorge is a...

Economic mobility worse in South?

by | Aug 29, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Americans pride themselves on their intergenerational mobility. Our nation’s exceptionalism is organized around the American dream: No matter where you come from and no matter who your parents are, you can rise to the top of the economic ladder, so long as you are...