Maybe you are out of airline miles or don’t have enough gas money. Maybe the vacation days ran out, and you are looking to escape without leaving the comfort of your armchair. Or, perhaps, you are ready for your next road trip and need help deciding where to go. If any of these apply, we’ve…
On this day in 1964—nine days after the passage of the Civil Rights Act—Lemuel Penn, a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and veteran of World War II, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on the Broad River Bridge near the Madison-Elbert County line. This fall we’re reissuing veteran journalist Bill Shipp’s Murder…
18,000 people enter the lottery. Only 800 are selected. My sister was one. It had been raining the last couple of days–heavy downpours. Our mom tried to talk us out of going, but we were determined to see the fireflies. (Click here to learn more about the Synchronous Firefly lottery in Tennessee.) On June 5,…
As everybody on social media knows by now, today is National Bikini Day. The bikini made its debut in 1946 and hasn’t left the pool or beach in nearly sixty years. For this, we are indebted to the French designer Louis Reard. His then considered scandalous bikini style embodied the freedom recently won in World…
June 1, 2017—For the third consecutive year, the Georgia Center for the Book will participate in the Route One Reads initiative, a program under the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. In 2017, the theme of the initiative will be memoirs and biographies, and the selected book to represent Georgia is Blood,…
This week is pub week for Practical Strangers: The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln edited by Stephen Berry and Angela Esco Elder. With the blog series we tried to recreate the delayed nature of correspondence during the Civil War, with a modern twist. To conclude the series, we…
Nathaniel reflects on the two months since he departed from Elodie and writes of his hopes for their speedy reunion. The trials of war become more evident through Nathaniel’s mention of soldiers’ differing opinions of their commanders and the possibility of marching on Washington to meet General Beauregard.
Elodie expresses her disappointment in not receiving a letter from Nathaniel and the fears his silence has provoked. She writes of the hard farewells that she has undergone, but fiercely declares her willingness to sacrifice everything for the Confederate cause and to resist her brother-in-law’s government.
I love you dearly, ardently, entirely, devotedly. Do you object? Do you call me lovesick? And I would throw millions in the scales if I could command them to feel that I deserved your love.” This summer we’re launching New Perspectives on the Civil War Era, a new series dedicated to the publication of primary…
On Short Takes today: Press news—Book Blowout 2017, author interviews, and more; announcing Annotations, a new podcast from UGA Press; BEA; Foreign Rights news; Awards news; and the latest reviews.
Ever since I can remember, I have been looked upon and called the ‘old maid’ of the family, and Mother seemed to think I was to be depended on to take care of her when all the rest of her handsomer daughters left her, and I really believe they all think I am committing a…
Nathaniel has finally received a letter from Elodie in response to his numerous letters. Here he expresses his joy that she has reciprocated, but he also references her powerful brother-in-law, Abraham Lincoln, by asking her to pressure him for peace because “it would add greatly to our happiness.”
