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I’m a Harvard Reject
Growing up in the Boston suburbs, in the shadows of Harvard, there was only one school I wanted to go to: Radcliffe, which in those...
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News From Around the South, 5/26 to 6/2
TENNESSEE: The flow of time: The Tennessee River in Chattanooga has seen more than 10,000 years of human history The 652-mile-long Tennessee River...
The Last Major Confederate Surrender: Smith, Buckner, Shelby, and Price Debate Their Options and Submission in New Orleans, May 26, 1865
Dating when the American Civil War ended is a point of debate. All that can be agreed upon is that the fall of Richmond and Petersburg, followed quickly by Robert E. Lee’s submission at Appomattox, created a chain reaction that assured collapse. Lee and his ability to hold Petersburg and Richmond was the hope the diehards clung to in 1865. Now it was gone. Aiding this was William Tecumseh...
How Disobeyed Orders Led to the Largest Confederate Surrender of the Civil War
When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, he surrendered an estimated...
The Secret Treason of Abraham Lincoln’s Brother-in-Law
Mary Todd Lincoln's relatives more than once caused President Lincoln considerable embarrassment and led to unfounded suspicions that the First Lady...