A Boat Against the Current

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Saturday, September 13, 2025

Quote of the Day (Ellen Glasgow, on Meanness, ‘A Fatal Inheritance’)

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“And though excellence may be seldom or never handed down in the blood, meanness, as his mother had warned him, is a fatal inheritance.” —Pu...
Thursday, July 3, 2008

This Day in Civil War History (Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg)

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July 3, 1863—Stymied after two days of repelled attacks on the Union Army at Gettysburg, Penn ., General Robert E. Lee ordered a massive ca...
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