Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., tweeted in response to anti-abortion legislation passed by the Alabama legislature: “I refuse to believe that [...]
News From Around the South 5/13 to 5/20
ARKANSAS: Lawmaker Who Pushed for Removal of Confederate Flag Resigns From Legislature
LITTLE ROCK, Ark — (AP) – The top Democrat [...]
May20
The large, colorful map of South Carolina and part of Georgia acquired recently by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation details much more than the geography of those states at the dusk of the colonial era. The very rare 1780 map is valued largely because it updates a 1757 version drawn by the cartographer William Gerard De […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Five Books On The Battle of New Orleans
On this week 157 years ago, New Orleans fell to Union forces in shocking fashion. Many observers then and now (including the author of an upcoming ECW volume) have deemed the sudden loss of [...]
New Page For South’s Oldest Institution
The two-story tall metal windows inside the Charleston Library Society’s main reading room need to be replaced, and Doerte McManus thought the old ones could be fashioned into coffee tables or other keepsakes to raise [...]
