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… brain as she lay sleeping with her 3-year-old son. “She died in the last half-hour of the year,” Mr. Arida said. …

… continues to fascinate. The old Athenian historian, who died before he could finish his one masterwork, was a … applied to him the phrase that damns in modern learned journals: “He writes well.” His subject was the so-called … the resolution with which they risked their lives. Orwin compares the speech with Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and …

… swirled through the courthouse yard, around the stone soldier and the flag, and still I never saw them on the street. … whenever the film sputtered on the reel, when the music died and the lights came up, I swiveled my face up to where …

… the height of Jim Crow, most newspapers in the region had become “sensitive to the dangers of racial conflict” and … public utterances, primarily in the form of his editorials, and his most intimate and heretofore unavailable … and rarely published for a regional or national audience (a 1927 article in the Virginia Quarterly Review …

… up moral defenses for the institution that made life comfortable? Is the culture of the Old South a myth? Or was … rosy and profitable future. Its traditions are turning into points of interest. It is capitalizing the Lost Cause. And … “Robert E. Lee.” Between acts I listened to the audience struggling with teacups and chocolates and fought to …