New biography examines Preston Brooks, the SC congressman behind an infamous Senate floor beating - Nearly 170 years after South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks raised his cane and beat abolitionist Charles Sumner bloody on the Senate floor, the pro-slavery lawmaker behind one of America’s most notorious acts of political violence is getting a full-length biography. Historian Paul Quigley widens the lens in his new examination, “The Man Behind the Cane: Preston […]
Let’s Fix Our Broken Health Care System - We just went through the longest government shutdown in history over contention regarding renewal of temporarily enacted government subsidies to Obamacare premiums. This battle is not over. Eight Democrats threw in the towel and agreed to postpone the issue and cooperate with Republicans to get a continuing resolution passed to fund our government and get […]
News From Around the South, 11/24 to 12/1 - TENNESSEE: Battle of Franklin Trust to mark Civil War anniversaries Three Williamson County battlefields are set to mark the 161st anniversaries of two pivotal Civil War conflicts on Saturday and Sunday. The Battle of Franklin Trust will host abbreviated after-hours tours at Rippa Villa in Spring Hill on Saturday and at Carter House and Carnton […]
Thanksgiving - It cuts to the core, through the hot air and the blue smoke and mirrors of our politics, to what really matters. Tatianna Schlossberg’s essay in The New Yorker is the one thing you must read this holiday season to touch base with what is real — including grief,but it also love and rage. A […]
Une fête française: Lowcountry’s connection to the ‘first’ Thanksgiving - BEAUFORT — The story of the first Thanksgiving in North America nearly perfectly embodies the truism that history is written by the victors. Representations of the “first” Thanksgiving are rife with English pilgrims and Native Americans celebrating a bountiful harvest in Plymouth, Mass., in the fall of 1621. That’s all true enough. But according to […]
