Civil War PTSD
In the summer of 1862, John Hildt lost a limb. Then he lost his mind. The 25-year-old corporal from Michigan saw combat for the first time at the Seven Days Battle in Virginia, where he was shot in the right arm. Doctors amputated his shattered limb close to...
Playing With Fire
In July of 1870, King Wilhelm sent Foreign Minister Bismarck an account of his meeting with a French envoy who had demanded that the king renounce any Hohenzollern claim to the Spanish throne. Bismarck edited the report to make it appear the Frenchman had insulted the...Lower Oil, King Dollar Good
We all know that the American energy revolution, led by the new technologies of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, has created a flood of new shale-oil and natural-gas production that has overwhelmed world markets and driven prices down by roughly 40...Battle of Nashville at 150
NASHVILLE — There’s still a gouge cut into the slope of Shy’s Hill in Nashville where Confederate soldiers hunkered down in a trench 150 years ago. It was the last big battle in the western theater of the Civil War, and the place where the Union army broke...News From Around the South 12/8 – 12/15
FLORIDA: Pensacola Bay Center Votes to Remove Confederate Battle Flag For years, the Pensacola Bay Center has flown the Confederate battle flag. The most well known flag, with white stars atop diagonol blue bars and a red background, was never an official flag of 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