While my wife and I were visiting out-of-state relatives recently, one of our daughters was taking advantage of her public library’s...

Be sure to check out Part 1 of the featured article about this book on Southern Writers magazine’s Suite T blog this Friday at...

One of my earliest childhood memories is of sitting on the couch beside my grandfather (we called him Pappaw) in his house while he...

Holidays can be many things to different people, depending on their circumstances  and environments and a host of other factors. For...

I’m thankful that I live in a country that affords me great freedoms, of expression, of worship, of opportunities to better myself, and...

“We want to live in the present,” he said, “and the only history that is worth [anything] is the history we make today.” Sadly, that...

But that painting, “Snap the Whip,” was more than a sanity-maintainer for me. It reminded me of three special people: my grandfather, my...

We buried Virginia Mae Dietterich, my wife’s mother and my mother-in-law, on Monday. (In case you’ve been wondering, that’s why I haven’t...

As I sat engaged in the various tasks of readying Christmas cards for mailing, I began to muse. I weighed how the practice has changed...

He was born on this date in 1928, about 11 months before the big crash. Most of his formative, pre-adolescent years were within that...

As we approach the Veterans Day weekend (and the actual date on Sunday, November 11), we owe a great debt of gratitude to everyone who is...

Recently, I’ve been reading a little [DRUM ROLL, PLEASE!] fiction, and old fiction at that. Few people today recall the author or his...

At the heart of the study is the U.S. citizenship test of basic facts about our nation’s history. Among the findings of the study are...

One hundred ninety years ago today, a man was born who later published a book the influence of which stretched far beyond his own...

On this date in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a secret project that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people...

Today, we take a look back at four historic events that occurred on this day, September 14. Copyright (c) 2018, Dennis L. Peterson...

Growing up as a kid, I thought that all grandparents–not only my own but also those of my friends–were old. After all, they had white,...

In an earlier, simpler time, visiting friends and neighbors was a normal party of everyday life. Sunday afternoons and holidays were...

Today marks the beginning of South Carolina’s “tax-free weekend.” It’s not actually totally tax free. Only certain products–and a...

But Dr. Moses Hoge, a contemporary of Jackson, declared, “To attempt to portray the life of Jackson while leaving out the religious...