Books: Matthew Brady's Portaits
Although “Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation” is billed as a biography, it actually reads as a by-now familiar story of technological innovation and entrepreneurship, parallel in an eerie way to the communication revolution we are experiencing in this...News from Around the South 7/29 – 8/5
Georgia: Brown’s Mill Battlefield Celebrates Grand Opening NEWNAN, Ga. — History came alive last week when more than 350 people came to take in the sights at the grand opening of the Brown’s Mill Battlefield Civil War Historic Site located south of Newnan...Heroes and Memory
When I first arrived in America a few years ago, one of the first things I noticed was the road name, Jefferson Davis Highway. For a moment, I wondered whether I was trapped in the 2004 mockumentary C.S.A: the Confederate States of America, where the South had won the...News from Around the South 7/22 – 7/29
Virginia: Confederate Marine Re-enactors Join Appomattox Show APPOMATTOX, Va. — Friday evening’s wind blew, catching the Confederate Marine flag at the head of a recreated Civil War campsite and whipping it about. The six tents surrounding the flag were...Obiter Dicta
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NORTH CAROLINA: Two ‘Human’Caused’ Fires Found at 16th Century Historic Site Two fires were discovered simultaneously at a North Carolina historic site dedicated to England’s first settlements on the continent — and Read More