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Oldest Surviving Ship of U.S. Navy To Go On Display Next Year

Oldest Surviving Ship of U.S. Navy To Go On Display Next Year

In 2026, the US will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That year, the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History will unveil a new display interpreting the 54-foot 1776 gunboat Philadelphia, built for Benedict Arnold at Whitehall and the oldest surviving ship of the US Navy. When it was reported in the summer of 1935 that the wreck of a Revolutionary...

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Oldest Surviving Ship of U.S. Navy To Go On Display Next Year

In 2026, the US will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That year, the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History will unveil a new display interpreting the 54-foot 1776 gunboat Philadelphia, built for Benedict...

‘The Message’ and The Interview

On Sept. 30, bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on the "CBS Mornings" show to promote his book "The Message," which is a one-sided critique of Israel as an apartheid state. The book compares Israel to the "Jim Crow South" and calls it out as the "one place...

News From Around the South 10/7 to 10/14

ALABAMA -- Montgomery High School Student Starts Petition To Change City Flag The flag, which incorporates Confederate symbols, was selected in 1952 by a committee that included Marie Bankhead Owen, a Lost Cause propagandist. The American Civil War ended in the 1860s....

Not All Lies Are Created Equal

It never ends. The press still does not know how to handle the avalanche of lies that is MAGA's chief contribution to our national life. I understand, sort of. It's dull and time-consuming to bird-dog every false accusation, wild assertion or factual misstatement that...

Don’t Nuke the Senate Filibuster

Why is it that the politicians keep referring to America as a "democracy"? How many times have we heard that former President Donald Trump is "threat to democracy"? Well, yes, we are a democracy. We vote in and out of office our politicians. But more importantly, we...

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