Could Vanished Scottish Colony Be Under Downtown Beaufort?
BEAUFORT — Archaeologist Chester DePratter looked beyond the edge of the city. From the park at the bottom of The Point, he could see 5 miles down the Beaufort River. “This is the highest point around,” DePratter, a research professor at the SC Institute of...
How, When Do We Come Together Again?
When 30 FBI agents showed up at Mar-a-Lago to cart off boxes of documents, it was an authorized, legitimate and justified procedure to retrieve national security secrets being illegally kept there. Or it was an unprecedented regime raid on the home and office of the...
News From Around the South, 8/8 to 8/15
SOUTH CAROLINA: Army’s Largest Training Base Has More Confederate Names Than All But 3 Other Bases One in four roads on Fort Jackson could be renamed as part of a wide-ranging study that has already suggested new names for nine military bases with Confederate...
The Dwindling Difference Between Our Two Parties on Spending
For a few years, I have sounded the alarm that a growing wave of conservatives are working to make Republicans indistinguishable from Democrats on social spending. Some say that to win elections, Republicans need to pay more attention to families — by which they mean...
Voyaging the Mississippi: How Flatboats Shaped American History
In the early years of the 19th century, vast numbers of small wooden boats plied the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Carrying goods to market and settlers to the lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, these vessels launched America’s western expansion. The boats were...Obiter Dicta
Republicans are dancing on the grave. They really were afraid of losing the House and with reason. Their leader, the Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: USC students are studying Southern history through barbecue A University of South Carolina course is using smoked pork and sauce traditions to teach students about Southern history, culture Read More