August 13, 2009 RSS feed / Opinions

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Family photos and papers bring to life a family's inborn looks and personalies

By KIP BURKE news editor
I recently spent an afternoon looking through my family's photos and papers, some stretching back more than a hundred years, and I'm struck more and more about how both our physical features and our personalities seem to be so much a product of our More...

Contrary to rumor, the French people like Americans

By LORAN SMITH columnist

CONQUES, France - If you visit The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, you will find Francois Pelou's photograph, owing to the fact that he was standing beside Jack Ruby when Ruby lunged and shot Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963. More...

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Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia

Survival in a Civil War Regiment
By SCOTT WALKER University of Georgia Press

Book Review Scott Walker is the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Waco, Texas. His great-great-grandfather was a member of the Fiftyseventh Georgia Infantry which is what this book is all about. More...