Discover Your Perfect Southern Cocktail
Are you overwhelmed by all the cocktail choices out there or simply looking for a change? Take our quiz to discover your perfect Southern cocktail.
July 5th is National Bikini Day
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…
Georgia Center for the Book Selects “Blood, Bone, And Marrow” for 2017 Route One Reads Initiative
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,…
Q&A with Stephen Berry, coeditor of Practical Strangers
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…
The Letters from Practical Strangers, Week 7: Nathaniel Prepares to March on Washington
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.
Letters from Practical Strangers, Week 6: Elodie Todd Declares her Brother-in-Law to be a “Tyrant”
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.
The Letters from Practical Strangers, Week 5: Nathaniel’s Devotion
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…
Short Takes: News and Reviews
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.
