If you need a break from the present–from Obamacare and Afghanistan and hurricanes–might I suggest the North Carolina History Project? It’s an encyclopedia of the people, places, and things that made North Carolina what it is, for better or worse. Among the more interesting characters:
William Dudley Pelley, the self-help guru who dreamed of becoming “America’s Hitler”
Robert L. Doughton, the congressman who got into a fistfight with a constituent
William Linkhaw, whose atrocious singing landed him in court for disturbing the peace
And there’s so much more!
