Civil War Journalism
New technologies and a growing demand for information during the US Civil War forever changed the nation’s press, according to a book by journalism professor Ford Risley. It was absolutely an important moment in the history of the press,” says Penn State’s Risley....
Unknown Faces of the Civil War
In the song “Home,” Phillip Phillips sings, “If you get lost, you can always be found.” That’s exactly what the Museum of the Confederacy hopes. Nine of its photographs from the Civil War are unidentified. The museum calls them...
Mason-Dixon Line Showing its Age
Cultural and – more recently – political changes have shifted the traditional border between North and South One way and another, surveyors have left their mark on American history. George Washington started his career as one. Then came Charles Mason and Jeremiah...
Slave states vs. free states, 2012
A century-and-a-half later, we’ve come full circle: the red-blue state divide falls along Confederate-Union lines. Every now and then someone highlights the overlap between today’s Republican states and the slave states of the former Confederacy. As clichéd as...Obiter Dicta
“Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?” Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: He died fighting for America’s independence at 14. He’s only just been identified Thirteen of America’s first ever veterans lie beneath a towering pine forest that was once Read More