Was Civil War About Slavery?
In the course of our conversation, Yacine Kout mentioned something else—an incident that had happened the previous spring at Eastern Randolph High School just outside Asheboro. On Cinco de Mayo, the annual celebration of Mexico’s defeat of French forces at the Battle...
News from Around the South 3/11-3/18
Virginia: Confederate Letters Reveal Personal Side of War “War is a dreadful thing to think of,” wrote Lt. Thomas Smith Taylor, who fought for the Confederate States of America at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and in other famous Civil War battles. Taylor...
Body Harder to Reset Than Clock
You may have remembered to spring forward this past weekend, but your body clock is likely telling you that you’re at work this morning at 7 instead of 8. It also may be saying you’re eating lunch at 11 a.m. instead of noon and dinner at 5 p.m. rather than...
Civil War St. Patrick's Day
It was exactly five months before the deadly battle at Gettysburg, the scene of inestimable carnage, and it was St. Patrick’s Day in the little town of Falmouth, Va., which today just off Interstate 95 on the way to Richmond. Troops of the Irish Brigade were camped...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: With location and design selected, SC’s Robert Smalls monument needs funding The monument is expected to cost between $1 million and $2 million for the cost of the Read More