I was right. I did smell an upset, as everybody’s favorite corporate headbangers, AC/DC, took out #6 seed Bryan Adams – although not by as much as some might have expected. ZZ Top and ELO picked up some votes, too, making pod 12 the most competitive to date. We’ll see AC/DC in the Sweet 16. Now […]
Archive | November 20, 2012
Telling History vs. Making Art: The ways we remember the Civil War
Part two in a series “We may say that only at the moment when Lee handed Grant his sword was the Confederacy born,” wrote Robert Penn Warren during the Civil War’s centennial; “or to state matters another way, in the moment of death the Confederacy entered upon its immortality.” Writer/activist Albion W. Tourgee, however, considered that moment […]
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