More evidence to chip away at the myth of Confederate nationalism

Posted on March 10, 2008 by cenantua

After exchanging a couple of e-mails with a friend last night, I mentioned a genealogical website that I thought looked like it had potential. I gave the trial version of Footnote a try about a month or so ago, but it seemed to have slow response time (it may have had something to do with [...]

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Reflections on Cold Mountain… and a little more

Posted on March 5, 2008 by cenantua

While the movie Cold Mountain has been out for sometime, I found a very interesting link to “Cold Mountain Diary.” Between this page and a few others, Charles Frazier (author of Cold Mountain) and others provide some great details about how the story came to be. Incidentally, I found this link through that syllabus that [...]

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