The Southern Mythology of “Uncle William” Mack Lee

“I ‘bey de law of man, de law of nature, and vote…

Albert Camus on “The Human Crisis”

Lessons from the French Resistance against Nazi Germany

The violence of the American Revolution

“In these circumstances, every man holds his life by the most…

Rev. Horace Ulrich Keener: 1801-1856

Methodist circuit rider & school superintendent in Cherokee, NC

Old Haas Cemetery in Maiden, North Carolina (circa 1776–1946)

“The Haas Cemetery is a forgotten piece…

The Battle of Ramsour’s Mill: An Annotated Online Bibliography

“A warm and obstinate fight insued…” —…

The “kidnapped” monument to German Freethinkers in the Texas Hill Country (1999)

A bizarre 21st…

The indecipherable rock art of Judaculla means different things to different people

Local 19th century haunted houses & the trial of the South Mountain witch doctor

Local folklore and a…

Farmsteading lime, iron and gold in N.C. during the Civil War and Reconstruction