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Opinion: Scrubbing 'Huck Finn,' and Our History

I, for one, have never endorsed the common use of the phrase "N-word" to replace the offensive racial epithet. For one, it reduces otherwise intelligent conversations about race to something that resembles the way adults spell out hot-button words so that they glide over the heads of innocent children. The recent scrubbing...

Civil War Dolls X-Rayed for Signs of Smuggling

(Oct. 29) -- Civil War-era dolls are being X-rayed in Virginia for clues as to whether their hollow heads were used to smuggle medicines across Union blockades to ailing Confederate soldiers. The two 150-year-old dolls, named Nina and Lucy Ann, have been preserved at the Museum of the Confederacy in the former...

Background on american south

The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South— is an area in the southeastern and south-central United States.

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