Gettysburg and The New South
RALEIGH – Next week Americans will be remembering the 150th anniversary of a defining moment in our country’s history, the Civil War battle at Gettysburg. The horrible losses there made the battlefield like a holy temple, a destination point for pilgrims. Fifty years...The South and the New Deal
Invoking “dysfunction” is now the basic black of punditry about American politics. As the British political theorist David Runciman recently observed in the London Review of Books, “Commentators find it almost impossible to write about American democracy these days...The Politics of Song
Like any effective popular song that explores cultural misunderstanding, “Accidental Racist’’ has ignited a lively dialogue about language and symbols that can mean very different things to different people. And it is hardly the first time a song by a Southerner...
Left Behind
According to a new poll by The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., 54 percent of likely voters believe President Obama does not deserve another term based on his economic record. With rising gas prices once again punishing working Americans and with fear in the air...Obiter Dicta
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania — Several years ago the Smithsonian magazine ran an elegant story about the use of postcards in American Read More
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