Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss visited the nation's capital today to call attention to the most endangered Civil War battlefields. ...more

March 18, 2009

How sour is the public mood? An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found about half of people believe 2008 was one of the worst years in American history. At times, Abraham Lincoln's lament has seemed apt, "We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read." ...more

January 3, 2009

The Duval County School Board will vote on whether to rename a school named after a former Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader. ...more

October 22, 2008

Visualize living in the South in 1862. It's time to kill a hog or cow in order to feed your family. Just finding an animal to kill is a challenge - Yankees have been stealing your livestock to feed their invading army. ...more

October 13, 2008

Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93. ...more

August 20, 2008

Tommy DeFoe wore his Southern pride on his Confederate flag belt buckle Wednesday as he argued in federal court that a school dress code banning such items violated his free speech rights. ...more

August 14, 2008

The date was Aug. 6, 1944, and the news release was chilling. "Racial disorders, now in progress in Tampa, Florida, between members of the Caucasian and Negro races, with attendant riots and bloodshed, have progressed beyond the control of civil authorities." ...more

February 17, 2008

After the U.S. dollar this week broke a 50-year low against the Canadian dollar, researchers had to dig deep into history books to find a lower exchange rate. ...more

November 3, 2007

The Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Ladies Auxiliary will be hosting the ceremony of the POW–MIA at Veterans Square down town Avon Park on Friday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. (Please bring your own lawn chairs.) ...more

September 18, 2007