Imperial Overreach
Toward the end of the presidency of George H.W. Bush, America stood alone at the top of the world — the sole superpower. After five weeks of “shock and awe” and 100 hours of combat, Saddam’s army had fled Kuwait back up the road to Basra and Bagdad....
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VIRGINIA: Pulaski Sesquicentennial Committee Honored As the months are counting down to the halfway point for 2015, the five-year commemoration for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War is also coming to a close. It’s been going on statewide, involving many different...
Carolina BBQ Tops Magazine List
Allen & Son Barbeque of Chapel Hill is among Southern Living magazine’s top picks on its annual list of “The South’s Top 50 Barbecue Joints.” The restaurant “bridges the contentious divided between the Eastern and Piedmont styles of North Carolina barbecue,” the...
Midwest Outpaces South in Manufacturing Jobs
If you read much, you’d be tempted to believe that the Southeast is getting all the manufacturing jobs these days, and that the Midwest and the North in general are losing out. It’s a familiar narrative — that the historic factory prowess of former Union...
Agency: Study Reconstruction Sites
The National Park Service has commissioned the first comprehensive review of nationally significant historical sites of the Reconstruction Era. The project, a National Historic Landmark Theme Study on the U.S. Reconstruction Era, 1861-1898, will bring attention to the...Obiter Dicta
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More