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...
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...
The Fading of the Old South
Politically speaking, we live by caricature. Particularly in the age of satellite TV news and Internet fulmination, the temptation is to melodrama. So I wasn’t terribly surprised to read a recent article in the online magazine Salon arguing that “even though it’s a...Obiter Dicta
“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy … She might become the dictatress of the world, But Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: This Day in History: July 10, 2015: Confederate flag removed from SC State House grounds COLUMBIA, SC (WCSC) – The Confederate Battle flag was removed from the South Read More