All tagged Southern History
Fred Opie interviews artist and educator Dr. David Driskell about the pokeweed plant in his garden.
On this week's edition of the best food podcast we turn to the subject of farming. As this country transitioned from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) Radical Republicans such as Thaddeus Stevens championed the notion of giving Freedmen (the name coined for the former enslaved population in the US South) 40 acres of land and a mule . . .