News from Around the South 1/21 – 1/28
South Carolina: Hunley Legend Altered by New Discovery For nearly 150 years, the story of the Hunley’s attack on the USS Housatonic has been Civil War legend. And it has been wrong. Scientists have discovered a piece of the Confederate submarine’s torpedo still...
Civil War Vet invented Infographic
AS THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE U.S. CENSUS, FRANCIS AMASA WALKER SOUGHT TO MAP PATTERNS THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE HAVE REMAINED HIDDEN OR LOST. IN DOING SO, HE PAVED THE WAY FOR THE MODERN INFOGRAPHIC, WRITES HISTORIAN SUSAN SCHULTEN. The 2012 election brought us a deluge of...
New Civil War Titles
As the world becomes more connected through the Internet, it’s becoming easier for scholars to turn up new data about the Civil War, on which far more books have been written than about any other event in U.S. history. Libraries and museums are increasingly putting...
Racial Politics and Miss America
FOR many people, the most interesting thing about this month’s winner of the Miss America Pageant, Mallory Hagan, is that she lives in Brooklyn. It seemed so incongruous: a beauty queen from the epicenter of all things ironic and progressive. Newspapers have...Obiter Dicta
Last week, a half-dozen masked and unidentifiable Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents killed a 37-year-old federal employee, a nurse, by Read More
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