News from Around the South 10/6 – 10/13
GEORGIA: Group Honors Union Civil War Solders They don hot woolen blue uniforms to participate in memorial services at Marietta National Military Cemetery, and also at the vast Union Army graveyard at the notorious Andersonville prisoner of war camp near Americus....Southern Food Gets its Due
Do you live somewhere with a cuisine of its own? How would you know? There have been some famous attempts to define cuisine, including one by Sidney Mintz that has generated a great deal of debate. I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that a cuisine...
Maher v. Affleck: Maher Should Apologize
Actor Ben Affleck, star of the hit film “Gone Girl,” recently appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show along with Sam Harris, author of the book “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion.” Maher and Harris accused Affleck of ignoring...News from Around the South 9/29 – 10/6
VIRGINIA: Re-Enactor Assumes Identity of Man who Lived Near Battlefield APPOMATTOX, Va. — Three times per week, Christopher Bingham lives in a time of horses and candlelight, far removed from the cars driving past the Appomattox Court House National Historic...SMELL: Senses of the Civil War
From the odious stench of soldiers who had marched for hundreds of miles in the same uniform, to the pleasant wisps of Virginia tobacco which lingered ’round the camp fire, the Civil War owned well more than just a few distinct scents. Here are a few ways...Obiter Dicta
One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. Read More
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