A Reading List for Traveling South
Books on everything from Kentucky Bourbon Country to American slavery and the Southern fiction classics can help enrich your travels.
Books on everything from Kentucky Bourbon Country to American slavery and the Southern fiction classics can help enrich your travels.
See the strange and outlandish side of the state at these off the beaten path spots.
There were no sounds when the first 10,000 men died Or when 20,000 men departed this life
The romance writer's Civil War drama starring Lauren Ambrose and Christopher Backus airs on Lifetime September 13.
a time was that men would sit around a fire shouldering up to cottonwoods listening to fox hounds
Opening to the public for Labor Day weekend, the Road to Tara Museum's Civil War exhibit expansion tells the story of the Atlanta Campaign.
by Ronald Paxton Ground fog thick as a New England chowder enveloped the stooped figure in the old Confederate cemetery. A pale early morning sun fought bravely to penetrate the damp swirling mass. John "Cowboy" Howard stretched his back and groaned
Windies have been traveling the "Gone With the Wind" trail for years, but for regular fans of Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece, a new, official trail of sites in and around Atlanta makes it easy to discover the story's history and legacy.
A Mississippi town remembers its Civil War history by lighting 12,000 luminaries each November. by Debi Lander This Saturday, the city of Corinth, Mississippi, will recall its history with the staging of the Grand Illumination: the fourth annual lighting of 12,000 luminaries on the battlefield and throughout historic downtown venues. Hundreds of volunteers will assemble to light candles in honor of the men, from both the South and North, who lost their lives during the Siege and Battle of Corinth in 1862. Rows and rows of flickering candlelight resembling tombstones will materialize across the poignant landscape like a haunting sunset view of Arlington Cemetery. The Illumination and events throughout the weekend associated with it have been named a Top 20 Event by the Southeast Tourism Society. On both Saturday and Sunday, attendees can visit with living history enactors who will camp and give demonstrations at the Civil War Interpretive Center. Cannons will also be fired at different intervals throughout the day on Saturday and once on Sunday afternoon. A special, and surprising, guest, former zookeeper and Texan Doug Baum, will be the highlight of the weekend when he arrives with a camel to re-enact the part of Old Douglas, the mascot of the 43rd Mississippi Infantry. How
A Southern architecture fan's dream, 'Gone' remembers the South's once magnificent historic structures.