Whiskey Resurgence in the Heart of the Rebellion
LATROBE, Pennsylvania — The making of whiskey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has often been fraught with a fair amount of drama. Whether it was those trying to make it or those trying to drink it, the government has sought to tax and sometimes even ban both activities. Two...News From Around the South, 12/2 to 12/9
Mercer Project Digitally Preserves History of Small Georgia County TOWNS COUNTY, Ga. — Towns County lies nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains of northeast Georgia. Home to about 12,500 people, the county is rich in heritage, yet little of its...
Three Cheers For Hunter’s Pardon
My initial reaction to the issuance of a full pardon by President Joe Biden to his son Hunter was emotional. What father wouldn’t pardon his own son, if he could? I suspect that the president has harbored these paternal thoughts even while he denied numerous...
Would the Revolution Have Succeeded Without George Washington?
In 1965 James Flexner published the first volume of his biography of George Washington in which he coined the term now indelibly stamped on the image of the iconic Founder: Washington was the “indispensable man.”1 Supposedly, he was the individual central to American...Obiter Dicta
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