In the summer of 1863, Robert E. Lee led an ill-advised incursion into Pennsylvania. His army was defeated at Gettysburg, and thence afterward Lee beat a fighting retreat until the South lost the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X I long have been grousing about creeping pan-Southernism — the lumping together of an array of ...

I’m sure those of you who tuned in to last week’s Republican convention enjoyed many memorable and inspiring moments, just as I did. For example, that inspiring moment Tuesday night when Newt Gingrich ...

For some ridiculous reason, we decided to take the car when meeting people at Olympia Café, still one of the best restaurants in a fleet of newcomers in this newly popular city. Oh, we’ll find parking ...

Last week I received a letter from a very dear physician friend of mine, Dr. Joe Johnston of Mount Olive, Mississippi. The note contained a yellowed magazine clipping of a column that I had written ...

This week I received yet another “ear-worm,” a song that plays in your head as an endless loop during quiet sleepless hours. This one was a most welcome inspiration for this month's Southernism column ...