California's Civil War
LOS ANGELES — ABOUT 15 years ago, Ron Hyde was thumbing through a Civil War magazine when he came across an advertisement for a museum called Drum Barracks. “The ad said it was located in Wilmington, Calif.,” said Mr. Hyde, who lives in Norco, about 50 miles...
Surveying Emancipation
President Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863 lent new urgency to the question of “what shall we do with the Negroes.” What had been only a possibility a few months before — the freeing of more than 3 million slaves still behind...
News from Around the South 3/11-3/18
Virginia: Confederate Letters Reveal Personal Side of War “War is a dreadful thing to think of,” wrote Lt. Thomas Smith Taylor, who fought for the Confederate States of America at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and in other famous Civil War battles. Taylor...
Body Harder to Reset Than Clock
You may have remembered to spring forward this past weekend, but your body clock is likely telling you that you’re at work this morning at 7 instead of 8. It also may be saying you’re eating lunch at 11 a.m. instead of noon and dinner at 5 p.m. rather than...
Civil War St. Patrick's Day
It was exactly five months before the deadly battle at Gettysburg, the scene of inestimable carnage, and it was St. Patrick’s Day in the little town of Falmouth, Va., which today just off Interstate 95 on the way to Richmond. Troops of the Irish Brigade were camped...Obiter Dicta
We’ve seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their Read More
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VIRGINIA: Mobile museum bringing Virginia history across the Commonwealth CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — It is a truck on a mission to teach young students and families about Virginia history. While Read More