Thanksgiving
It cuts to the core, through the hot air and the blue smoke and mirrors of our politics, to what really matters. Tatianna Schlossberg’s essay in The New Yorker is the one thing you must read this holiday season to touch base with what is real — including...
Une fête française: Lowcountry’s connection to the ‘first’ Thanksgiving
BEAUFORT — The story of the first Thanksgiving in North America nearly perfectly embodies the truism that history is written by the victors. Representations of the “first” Thanksgiving are rife with English pilgrims and Native Americans celebrating a bountiful harvest...
How to Remain Grounded and Thankful Amid the Chaos
In a year marked by political vitriol in seemingly every conversation, a relentless scourge of political violence, and the highest-profile political assassination since 1968, Thanksgiving arrives just in time. Truthfully, it always does. And it always reminds us that...
News From Around the South, 11/17 to 11/24
TEXAS: Texas education board debates narrowing focus of history curriculum In September, the board adopted a plan that emphasizes Texas and U.S. history, while reducing focus on world history and cultures. AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is...
How Low Can Deviancy Go?
The central scandal in the Epstein’s sex abuse ring targeting children is not the sex. It’s the children. What powerful men do with grown-up women — that is, females 18 or older — bothers me little. I never cared much about Donald Trump’s assignation...Obiter Dicta
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TENNESSEE: Battle of Franklin Trust to mark Civil War anniversaries Three Williamson County battlefields are set to mark the 161st anniversaries of two pivotal Civil War conflicts on Saturday and Read More