Book Review
War on the Waters, by James McPherson James McPherson, Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author has published his latest book, War on the Waters, through the University of North Carolina Press. Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact...
Mason-Dixon Line Showing its Age
Cultural and – more recently – political changes have shifted the traditional border between North and South One way and another, surveyors have left their mark on American history. George Washington started his career as one. Then came Charles Mason and Jeremiah...
Round 3 to Obama
President Barack Obama won the final presidential debate because it was on foreign policy, and the president’s foreign policy — unlike his domestic spending — is popular with the American people. Mitt Romney didn’t win the debate, but he did undercut Team...
Southern Candidates?
ATLANTA—For decades, Southerners put a firm imprint on national politics from both sides of the aisle, holding the White House for 25 of the past 50 years and producing a legion of Capitol Hill giants during the 20th century. But that kind of obvious power has waned...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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