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My Town Council colleague Bill Thorpe died on Saturday. We will miss him very much. I came to know him first in early 2004, when he was inv...

This is a question I was asked at yesterday's second annual Project Homeless Connect . It's a good question. There's probably a ...

On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, some recommended reading: the special Katrina issue of Southern Cultures , cover to cover. Am...

A couple of months ago, Al blogged about " Traces of the Trade ," a documentary made by a descendant of the DeWolf family of Rhod...

Frank Harmon's beautiful design for the North Carolina Botanical Garden's new visitor education center , slated to be the first P...

I made a very quick trip out to Asheville before school starts--been hearing a bunch about the place and, of course, it was everything I...

Earlier this week came the hard news that Ashley Osment's cancer has returned. The rare form of ovarian cancer that struck her last year...

Cute post, Al , but it's obvious I'm no Obama. I'd love to take his courses. Or teach some pale semblance of one of them again s...

They both are interested in Justice Thomas Ruffin's 1830 opinion in State v. Mann ! Sally writes about it and Obama taught it in his se...

To follow up on the post below on the contested North Carolina/Virginia line, here's a great old map. Nicholas Comberford’s 1657 ...

At right is the cover of the Chowan County grand jury indictment, in spring 1829, of John Mann for the assault and battery of the slave Lydi...

This evening I want to read Jefferson Davis' July 1852 address to the Phi Sigma and Hermean Societies of the University of Mississippi...

On Monday afternoon we visited Howard Rheingold at his Marin County home, a cottage nestled into a lush California garden. On good days, wh...

David Silver , his wife Sarah Washburn, and their friends James Jacobs and ShinJohng Yeo spent the day yesterday showing us their San Franci...

View from Grizzly Peak , Berkeley, near the home of our hosts, Lee Douglas and Betsy Strode. Alma Kunanbaeva of the Silk Road House ...

Safe inside the Presidio, around the corner from the barracks of the legendary U.S. 30th Infantry Regiment (now being transformed into the...

YouTube's headquarters is in San Bruno in a beautiful green building designed originally for Gap, Inc. by William McDonough . We got th...

On vacation. What a lark, what a plunge! Arrived in San Francisco yesterday, spent some time in OCLC's Research Libraries Group offic...

Ok--so I'm sitting here reading John McCardell's fantastic Idea of a Southern Nation . He references an algebra book published in t...

I've lived in North Carolina long enough to know that barbeque is religion, but I didn't know till lately that there's actually ...