The Obama scandals started piling up on top of each other in the last few days. The civil servants who [...]
News from Around the South, 5/6 – 5/13
Mississippi: Civil War Letters Going Home
JACKSON, Miss. — Richard Bridges seemed like a typical college student in his letters home.
He [...]
“There are things you can get away with in this world, and things you can’t.” The voice is Matthew McConaughey’s, and days after seeing him in “Mud,” I can close my eyes and hear him still — a simple line echoing with the mysteries of a man caught in the emotional muck and Mississippi mud of Jeff […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Civil War CSI
Legendary Confederate fighter Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson died 150 years ago but the actual cause of his death has been a subject of debate. And it was again at the 20th annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference in [...]
Gettysburg’s Grip
In a few weeks, an estimated 4 million visitors are expected to descend upon the picturesque southern Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, which has a population of less than 8,000. They’re coming by the millions to [...]