Obiter Dicta
Perilous Times for Personal Liberty
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade...
CSA
News From Around the South, 3/10 to 3/17
GEORGIA: A new push to change Georgia law concerning Stone Mountain's Confederate monument Georgia's Stone Mountain Park — once home to the Ku Klux...
What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is coming to tea, but we have watched the feckless Algernon eat all the cucumber sandwiches prepared for her by his manservant, Lane. The servant saves the day when the aunt arrives, expecting her sandwiches, by...
How Racial Realignment Ignited the Culture War
How did Americans become politically divided on culture war topics like guns, abortion, women’s role, gay rights, and environmentalism? The common...
This Group of Veterans is Finding Peace in an Unlikely Place: a Camden Revolutionary War Battlefield
CAMDEN — A below-freezing wind chill, weeks of rain and manual labor might seem like a lot of work to recover an ounce of lead from the ground. But...