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The Worst Pope in History
A little over a year ago, I spent a week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social...
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News From Around the South, 4/14 to 4/21
NORTH CAROLINA: New N.C. bill would introduce AAPI history to school curriculum A new bill in the N.C. General Assembly is calling for Asian...
Harriet Tubman stripped, then restored to US National Park Service site for Underground Railroad
The National Parks Service has reversed course and restored references of celebrated abolitionist Harriet Tubman to its webpage about the Underground Railroad. A quote and image of the legendary freedom fighter — who also served a pivotal role in Beaufort County and the S.C. Lowcountry during the Civil War — that led the park service's Underground Railroad webpage disappeared recently during an...
Volunteer Archivists Decipher Thousands of Untold Stories from the American Revolution
In 1777, drunken British soldiers stormed into Sarah Martin’s home in Woodbridge, New Jersey and demanded that she cook them ham and eggs. Hostile...
South’s Best Barbecue Joints
Each year in our South’s Best poll, we ask our readers to name their picks for the South’s Best barbecue joint in each state. The results have been...