Civil War Vet invented Infographic
AS THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE U.S. CENSUS, FRANCIS AMASA WALKER SOUGHT TO MAP PATTERNS THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE HAVE REMAINED HIDDEN OR LOST. IN DOING SO, HE PAVED THE WAY FOR THE MODERN INFOGRAPHIC, WRITES HISTORIAN SUSAN SCHULTEN. The 2012 election brought us a deluge of...
New Civil War Titles
As the world becomes more connected through the Internet, it’s becoming easier for scholars to turn up new data about the Civil War, on which far more books have been written than about any other event in U.S. history. Libraries and museums are increasingly putting...
Racial Politics and Miss America
FOR many people, the most interesting thing about this month’s winner of the Miss America Pageant, Mallory Hagan, is that she lives in Brooklyn. It seemed so incongruous: a beauty queen from the epicenter of all things ironic and progressive. Newspapers have...
Gay Marriage in South?
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – Same-sex couples stood at government counters in two North Carolina cities on Monday to ask for marriage licenses they knew they would be denied, part of a push across the U.S. South this month to demand equality even...
News from Around the South 1/14 – 1/21
Florida: Re-Enactors Celebrate Battle, Camp Life The American Civil War was probably pretty difficult for all who took part. But with all the issues the soldiers and noncombatants faced in the 1860s, they didn’t have to worry about car alarms blaring. Union and...Obiter Dicta
The Washington Post put it this way: Platner, before the latest allegation, faced scrutiny for old social media posts dismissive Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: SC militias fought for America’s freedom – who fights for their battlegrounds? As a boy, Rick Wise was hooked on military history from the beginning. But he was Read More