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Thanks to the Carrboro Citizen for including Orange County's adoption of a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness among its 10 "...

Congrats to Paul and ibiblio.org for ranking right up there with the CIA as a trusted internet authority! So says the Sunday Times of Lond...

Christmas Eve 1862 , as seen in Harper's Weekly , January 1863. More .

George Smart's Triangle Modernist Houses just gets better and better.

" Project 50 " aims to take the 50 most vulnerable homeless off of Skid Row and put them into permanent supportive housing. Sur...

Via the Law & Humanities Blog (new to my blogroll, a great find), a fascinating article on the "magical" properties of law, ...

As noted by the NYT's personal shopper: "A number of midcentury modern chairs that have long been out of production — some of them...

A guest-post by Jonathan Riehl . Every once in a blue moon we are lucky enough to encounter people in our lives who seem too good to be tr...

Congratulations to the folks in Durham who succeeded the second time around in getting a state historical marker for the site of a civil ri...

It's been an unusual December so far. Too warm to think about shopping, then finally the time is right for a tree. We find the perfect t...

Eric Muller gave a talk about his new book, American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II , at the Japane...

For book lovers on your list, suggestions from independent book sellers and from the board of directors for the National Book Critics Circl...

Sometime last year at one of our Orange County homelessness round tables, I met a young single African American woman who was living at the ...

A hearty helping of new books on law and literature . Via Legal History Blog .

With the exception of the Flying Burrito, which has sadly entered into historical memory , Matt Barrett's review of local restaurants p...

The term "complete street" is something I first heard from my colleague Ed Harrison . It means a street that accommodates more tha...

From the Utne Reader , a profile of an affordable housing development where the residents have affordable utility bills. Viking Terrace’...

By Lisa Scheer .

Denzel Washington is starring in a movie set in 1935 about the great debating team at Wiley College, a black college, now a struggling HBC,...

At long last, sometime this summer my essay on Elizabeth Spencer's novel The Voice at the Back Door and the Carrollton Massacre of 1886...