Jefferson Davis

Culinary SOS: Apple butter cake from Huckleberry Bakery & Cafe

2012-01-05 00:00:00

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Jackson residents reflect on relations beyond 'The Help' lens

2011-08-27 00:00:00

On a recent steamy Saturday evening, 11 members of Deborah Rae Wright's book club — black, white, Indian and Jewish women — gathered in her meticulously restored Craftsman home on the rundown west side of the Mississippi capital. The topic was...

NEH gives $40 million in grants; $3.2 million to California

2011-08-02 21:33:16

Obama and Lincoln: trash-talking, Civil War-era style

2011-08-18 21:36:56

A chapter that's all but forgotten: When the Civil War came west

2011-04-11 00:00:00

Things hadn't gone according to plan — do they ever in war? — and now, Lt. James Barrett was going to make them right. The cavalry officer and his dozen or so men would rescue his colleague, Capt. William McCleave, from those nettlesome rebels...

Culinary SOS: Huckleberry's whole-wheat apple butter cake

2011-02-10 00:00:00

� Dear SOS: Help! The apple butter cake at Huckleberry is the most delicious thing I have ever eaten. I can't stop thinking about the taste. I would do anything for the recipe, including washing dishes there for the day. It's that good. Jefferson Davis...

Another President's Day -- for Jefferson Davis

2011-02-18 21:38:37

Book reviews: Two Civil War anthologies

2011-04-10 00:00:00

Hearts Touched by Fire The Best of "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" Edited by Harold Holzer Modern Library: 1,264 pp., $38 The Civil War The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It Edited by Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears and Aaron Sheehan-...

'Hell' by Robert Olen Butler

2009-08-31 00:00:00

If you must have a shtick, make it a good one. Robert Olen Butler is familiar with this dictum: His collection "Tabloid Dreams" was based on supermarket tabloids; the stories in "Had a Good Time" were drawn from vintage postcards; "Severance" was composed...

Potential Texas school books: Was Jefferson Davis that bad a guy?

2010-03-11 21:34:13

Why Retired Military Brass Don't Want Torture

2006-09-24 00:00:00

FOR ONE 83-year-old veteran of World War II, it was the searing memory of a Japanese prisoner who helped turn the tide on Iwo Jima. For a 40-year veteran of Army intelligence, it was a trip to the battlefield at Gettysburg. For all 43 retired generals and...

Planning your golfing trip to North Carolina

2008-03-09 00:00:00

THE BEST WAY From LAX, Southwest and US Airways have direct service (stop, no change of plane) to Raleigh, N.C. AirTran, American, Continental, Delta, Northwest and United have connecting service (change of plane). Restricted round-trip fares begin at...

Recruiting Buzz: Gunter, who has enrolled early at UM, brings experience to a secondary that lacks punch. Gunter had 24 tackles through seven games at Fort Scott this past season. He had three tackles for loss, two forced fumbles and a 100-yard interception return for a touchdown.

2012-01-24 22:40:34

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J.D., or just Boss, he's rotten but lovable.

2011-10-11 12:10:35

After a visit to Jefferson Davis ' home, Lincoln took a carriage ride past the gleaming white Virginia State Capitol which had been the home of the Confederate Congress. This building, expanded in later years on the sides, is the site of a large equestrian statue of George Washington by Thomas

2009-07-03 15:59:59