News From Around the South 10/ – 11/27
MARYLAND: Peaceful Park Was Once Savage Civill War Camp During the Civil War, Maryland became a border state, and because of its proximity to the Union capital, Washington D.C., it played a pretty key role during the war. While the area was traditionally a summer...Haunting Portraits of Civil War Casualties
Men missing legs, arms, fingers and toes – these compelling portraits show the disfigured and maimed bodies of soldiers wounded in battle during the Civil War. While an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 were killed in the four-year long war, it is also infamous for...
Incumbents always win
I’m told that the public is “angry” at today’s politicians. Eighty-two percent disapprove of the job Congress is doing. So will Tuesday’s election bring a big shakeup? No. Congressional reelection rates never drop below 85 percent. The...REVIEW: "Clouds of Glory: Robert E. Lee"
A publisher once explained the First Law of Biography to novelist Nick Hornby: “They always increase in length, because the writer has to justify the need for a new one, and demonstrate that something previously undiscovered is being brought to the … party; and you...News From Around the South 10/21 – 10/27
VIRGINIA: Museum Marches On Despite Confederate Flag Danville’s inability to legally remove a Confederate flag from the lawn of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History is not stopping the museum’s new strategic plan and its upcoming sesquicentennial...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