"African slavery is the cornerstone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.... The antislavery party contend that slavery is wrong in itself, and the government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery is right, and that this is a confederate republic of sovereign states."
–Rep. Lawrence Keitt of South Carolina in a speech to the House Jan. 25, 1860, as quoted in the Congressional Globe
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)
