By now, there have been more gallons of ink spilled in chronicling, analyzing and Monday Morning Quarterbacking the Civil War than blood spilled on all of its battlefields. Yet the period remains catnip to scholars and amateur historians for its deep-set meanings and motivations that still resonate today.But noted historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor has done something different with his latest doorstop tome,And that’s because the takes the “American”—as in North American—definition wider.So, while the bulk of the book is a compact social, political and military look at...

Tennessee lawmakers have sent a "blended sentencing" bill to Gov. Bill Lee's desk that will crack down on lenient punishments for the worst of the worst juvenile offenders by handing them adult punishments after they age out of the juvenile system. Under current law, the juvenile justice system loses jurisdiction over a young offender after his or her 19th birthday. The blended sentencing bill gives serious offenders a maximum of three to five additional years in adult prison if they meet certain negative criteria after aging out. "If they're 17...

With new institutes emerging at colleges and universities in Florida, Ohio, Utah, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, and elsewhere, civics education may be seeing a rebirth. “We need these civics centers at every institution of higher education in America,” says political theory professor Richard Avramenko. Avramenko, a Jack Miller Center faculty fellow, will be taking over as director of an already established civics institution in July: the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. He will be moving from the frigid winters of Wisconsin to the...

A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities in Iowa and Virginia. The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC entered into a consent judgment, in which the company agrees to nearly $650,000 in civil penalties and the court-ordered mandate that it no longer employs minors. The February filing indicated federal investigators believed at least four children had still been working...

The old turkey call is lined with notches. Dan Wittenberg adds one for each legal turkey the call draws within shooting range. He’s careful to say he’s not the best turkey hunter in the world, but he knows how to talk to birds. While helping young hunters during youth seasons earlier this month, he called in 19 male turkeys. That’s 19 more notches for the old call. The call is a long box, made of Eastern red cedar and butternut. For 15 years, he’s been rubbing the lid against the...

At some point in the next several months, Donald Trump—having parted ways with his veep, whom he almost got killed—is going to have to announce a 2024 running mate. Who is the lucky lady, or lad, going to be? No one, including the GOP presidential candidate himself, seems to know. The short list, a Trump adviser told The Washington Post, is “growing, not shrinking,” and the ex-president continues to come up with new names for consideration. But he definitely has some requirements that narrow the field of potential candidates. According...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a bill on Thursday that requires local law enforcement agencies to report illegal migrants to federal authorities, the reported. While other Democratic-run cities and states around the country are choosing to continue implementing so-called "sanctuary" policies that prohibit local and state police from coordinating with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Tennessee has adopted a new measure that would mandate communication with federal agencies.

A 14-year-old Griffin Herring was making his first start for Southlake Carroll High, but this was no ordinary game. The Dragons were facing Argyle High, a Texas high school baseball powerhouse that hadn't lost a game in 651 days. But Herring wouldn't accept Whiteley's pitch call from the dugout. Whiteley knew what he was doing; he was a pitcher in the New York Yankees organization years before the young left-hander on the mound was even born. "He said, 'How is this freshman calling me off and shaking me off and...

The internet is a crazy place, especially for kids. Many Americans worry about what their children may find on social media and darker corners of the web. There’s a popular demand for Congress to act make the internet safer for vulnerable minds. However, the solution backed by many Republicans will empower liberal bureaucrats and tech executives to suppress more speech on the internet. Rather than resolving the problem, the bill opens the door to tacit hate speech laws. The bill, called the Kids Safety Act, was just introduced in the...

Dennis Quaid sees artificial intelligence as a "great tool," but doesn’t think humans will lose out at the end of the day. "I think it's actually going to be a great tool eventually," Quaid told Fox News Digital. "AI is not very good with human emotion, nor will I think it ever will be. I mean that's what actors bring to it," he continued. 'REAGAN' STAR DENNIS QUAID HAS NO REGRETS DESPITE TURNING DOWN SEVERAL MASSIVE HOLLYWOOD HITS Quaid noted, "I think there's questions to be asked and stuff like...