Our Favorite Books: Emerging Civil War’s Tim Talbott’s Top 5 Picks
As much as I read, I have many, many, many favorite books. Narrowing them down to my five most favorite is extremely difficult, if not impossible. However, if I make this list “five of my favorite books” instead of “my five most favorite books,” that helps take off...
What Do You Hear?
Will angry young men who are attracted by Donald Trump’s sexist machismo and utter lack of a filter actually turn out to vote? Will latent sexism rear its ugly head, as it did in 2016, leading Trump to perform better than his poll numbers predict? Will young...
News From Around the South, 10/28 to 11/4
SOUTH CAROLINA: Largest conservation easement project in SC history underway with $50M grant COLUMBIA — More than 62,000 acres of land in the Pee Dee are slated for protection, marking the largest conservation easement project in the state’s history, according to a...
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
My family and friends are angry with me because I won’t tell them for whom I plan to vote for president. I have not voted for the Republican or Democrat for president since 1984, when I happily voted for Ronald Reagan. Since those days, the Democrats have...
Where The Unclaimed Dead of South Carolina’s Prisons Are Laid To Rest
COLUMBIA — Visitors aren’t a common sight here. Tucked away from view is the resting place of the state’s criminal dead, a modest three-quarter-acre parcel in the shadow of Columbia’s sprawling prison complex on the Broad River. It’s where the...Obiter Dicta
There is lore about the 1862 meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” — the influential novel Read More
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