A Movie For Clintonites
Washington — A couple of weeks ago I heard the National Symphony Orchestra perform Dmitri Shostakovich’s symphony commemorating war and revolution, his Symphony No. 11. There was not much lyricism to it, not even a dulcet tune one could whistle while leaving the...
South’s Confederate Monument Problem
It was 1913, and the Civil War had been over for 48 years. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization that worked to populate the South with Confederate war memorials, decided such a monument should be erected in Rockville, Maryland, a suburb of...
America Today Resembles 1910 More Than Postwar Era
What’s your benchmark? What is the historical era with which you compare life in contemporary America? For many astute commentators on various points of the political spectrum, it is postwar America, the two decades after the United States and its allies won...
News From Around the South 5/9 to 5/16
SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston Honors Civil War Memorial Day Tradition CHARLESTON, SC — The recently state-sanctioned Confederate Memorial Day holiday is past, but Saturday marks a celebration held annually in Charleston since the late 1800s. Civil War re-enactors...
Southern Culture for Internationals
Almost all of them know who Michael Jordan is. But when it comes to ordering eggs in a restaurant – fried, poached, hard boiled, scrambled, over easy – they’re pretty much stumped by the terminology. America is a complex and baffling place for UNC’s international...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