Mother Love
My daughter was born on Mother’s Day, 23 years ago. It was the happiest day of my life — matched only, almost three years later, by the birth of my son. I had never felt such love before. Hooray for Hallmark. Years passed. My own mother died. My daughter went...Civil Rights' 50th
ATLANTA — Key events in 1963, from protests in Alabama to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, galvanized the civil rights movement that eventually toppled Jim Crow laws in the South. The 50th anniversary of those events is a great...Stonewall Best General?
At a time when much was going wrong for the South in the Civil War, Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson carried the hopes of a nation on his lightning marches through the Shenandoah Valley. He was a rock star in 1862-63, legendary on both sides of the conflict. When he died...Full Moon to Blame for Stonewall Jackson's Death?
A full moon hung just right in the night sky as the fierce Southern Army faced the encroaching Union troops in the spring of 1863. Though they were outmanned and outgunned, the momentum of the war seemed to be on the side of Generals Robert E. Lee and...Obiter Dicta
In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its Read More
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