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Let’s Fix Our Broken Health Care System
We just went through the longest government shutdown in history over contention regarding renewal of temporarily enacted government...
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News From Around the South, 11/24 to 12/1
TENNESSEE: Battle of Franklin Trust to mark Civil War anniversaries Three Williamson County battlefields are set to mark the 161st anniversaries of...
New biography examines Preston Brooks, the SC congressman behind an infamous Senate floor beating
Nearly 170 years after South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks raised his cane and beat abolitionist Charles Sumner bloody on the Senate floor, the pro-slavery lawmaker behind one of America’s most notorious acts of political violence is getting a full-length biography. Historian Paul Quigley widens the lens in his new examination, “The Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence,...
Charles Towne’s First Wall
Construction of Charles Town’s first sea wall commenced in early 1704, as part of a massive plan to fortify the entire city. It was truly a civic...
What Is The Seawee Shell Ring?
Visitors come from all over the globe to see Charleston’s beautiful, centuries-old historic buildings. Yet very few people — even locals — ever make...