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TENNESSEE: Nashville Suburb Sues State Historical Commission Over Confederate-Named Streets During the late 1950s and early 1960s — in an era marked by desegregation and white flight — a pair of real estate development firms built a residential enclave in the...
A Government By Experts
I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty. With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship — during which the federal...
America’s First Museum: 250 Years of Collecting, Preserving and Educating
The main reason for the special two-part exhibit “America’s First Museum: 250 Years of Collecting, Preserving and Educating” is to celebrate The Charleston Museum’s anniversary and show off objects from all five of its collections: archaeology, archives, history,...
Is The Conscience Reliable?
“A person’s moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one’s behavior” — the dictionary definition of “conscience.” Whenever I make the common-sense argument that people need to hold themselves accountable to a...
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SOUTH CAROLINA: WW2 Veteran’s Remains Identified By Federal Agency After 79 Years COLUMBIA — Nearly 80 years after he went missing in action, the remains of a Columbia native airman who served during World War II have been identified. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt....Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘Just wonderful’: USC musicians perform at Congaree National Park for country’s 250th birthday In a celebration of American music, the student performers also hoped to introduce more people Read More