Women in Combat
Think women haven’t been in combat? Meet the women who dressed like men to fight the Civil War. The military ban on women in combat is coming to an end. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the overturning of a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from...
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...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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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