Mathew Brady And His Groundbreaking Photos That Showed The Public The Gruesome Price Of The Civil War
Known as the “father of photojournalism,” Mathew Brady helped take 10,000 pictures of the Civil War — and captured the reality of America’s bloodiest conflict. allthatsinteresting.com
Supreme Court Poised to Strike Down Racial Preferences
Lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina are exposing the crude and dehumanizing racial sorting that goes on in the admissions offices at elite universities. The application form asks young people to check a box identifying themselves...
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Beaufort Hall Where Black Civil War Veterans Once Gathered Added To Historic Network (Tribune News Service) — The 126-year-old Grand Army of the Republic Hall in Beaufort, S.C. — where Black Civil War veterans once gathered — is among four additions to...
Bush, Guantanamo, and the Rule of Law
Last week, the government announced that it does not want to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four of his colleagues whom it claims are the remaining conspirators of the attacks on 9/11. All five are awaiting trial at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The...
Experts Rate Best 7 Best BBQ Bites in 2022
Editor’s note: A few weeks ago we recapped Southern Living’s most-recent barbecue rankings, but in the interest of diversity one of our favorite weekly barbecue newsletters is ‘The Smoke Sheet,’ and it just put out its own best bites of 2022...Obiter Dicta
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