Now, in the wake of all this undue excitement going on about the Obama administration’s benevolent “Merkelphone” eavesdropping program, Germany has decided to take the initiative when it comes to etiquette in certain private (or private eye) matters, too. During a two-day summit in Brussels...
Now the Trump campaign is said to be considering another, even more outrageous approach: In a thorough and deeply disturbing piece about the constitutional crisis that may await us between November 3 and the inauguration in January, theAtlantic’s Barton Gellman reports that the Trump campaign has...
Even in antebellum Asheboro, as I have written previously in the entry “A Confederate Christmas in Randolph County,” people would wear masks and costumes and loudly beat pots and pans until residents fed them or gave them presents, a survival of medieval “wassailing.” Not until after the...
By the end of the day in our narrative, the battle was called for Confederate forces and as a result, gave control of southwestern Missouri to the Confederates.The Battle of Pea Ridge took place in northwestern Arkansas on March 7th – 8th of 1862, near Lee Town in Benton County, ...
A few years after the Civil War as the nation started upon its long road toward reconciliation, rebuilding, and healing the wife of one of the war’s union generals noticed the touching devotion of Confederate widows, wives and their children as each year they came together to place flowers ...
Amid the horrors of the Post-Apocalyptic south, three disparate groups of survivors must come together to save themselves as the only hope for the future. Pitted against a powerful neo-Confederate tribe and the relentless hunger of the infected, our heroes find redemption, love and hope. ...
It’s called “Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure,” and it was written by William Pittenger, one of the soldiers who took part, after he was released from a Confederate prison almost a year after he was captured when the raid failed.If you grew up, as I ...
from the shed where Inyo County kept the Bang Bang. They stuffed the dynamite next to the Alabama Hills gatehouse (by the way…the Alabama Hills were named by miners who were sympathetic to the Confederate cause during the Civil War after the CSS Alabama, a very successful raiding ship that...
So court cases were pretty much based on testimony and what the medical person said happened to the body. Secondly, we have to understand the politics of the frontier. The OK Coral gunfight happened 15 years after the end of the Civil War. Southerners were still smarting and unwilling to...
About 250,000 Black people enslaved in Texas were the last in the country to receive notice of the proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln had issued more than two years prior granting freedom to all enslaved people in Confederate states. ...