In the summer of 1863, Robert E. Lee led an ill-advised incursion into Pennsylvania. His army was defeated at Gettysburg, and thence afterward Lee beat a fighting retreat until the South lost the ...

Last week I received a letter from a very dear physician friend of mine, Dr. Joe Johnston of Mount Olive, Mississippi. The note contained a yellowed magazine clipping of a column that I had written ...

The Southernism article I am offering this week has been around for quite a while, having appeared in the Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association in 2006 and later in my book UNA VOCE in ...