The Changing Face of Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln’s physical appearance changed dramatically during his tenure as President of the United States. The magnitude of his apparent aging is often demonstrated by showing a photograph from the start of his first term compared to one taken a few months before...News From Around the South 2/9 to 2/16
SOUTH CAROLINA: Site of Confederate Veteran’s Home to get New Marker COLUMBIA, S.C. — A former graduate student’s thesis paper sparked the process for a marker at the first home for Confederate soldiers. “It’s important to cherish the...
Brian Williams Must Step Down
Brian Williams has ruled the roost at “NBC Nightly News” for more than 10 years. Right before he took over, he saw Dan Rather’s career go up in flames at CBS over phony National Guard documents marshaled against President Bush. The anchorman’s...Study: Southerners Pro-Energy
ANN ARBOR—Southerners are less likely than Americans in other parts of the country to believe that energy affects the environment by at least a fair amount, according to the latest findings of the University of Michigan Energy Survey. A joint effort of the U-M Energy...Civil War Sub Finally Revealing Secrets
A century and a half after it sank and a decade and a half after it was raised, scientists are finally getting a look at the hull of the Confederate submarine HL Hunley, the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship. What they find may solve the mystery of why the...Obiter Dicta
Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the Read More
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LOUISIANA: LSU struggles with multimillion-dollar athletics deficit: ‘We’ve got to stop that bleeding After years of minimal profits, LSU athletics is now tens of millions of dollars in the red. Read More