by editor | Dec 16, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
While Grant was ready to strike and capture Vicksburg, it is important to understand the campaigning along the Mississippi River and in Tennessee. It was the strategic situation in the west in the spring of 1863 and Grant’s successful campaign against Vicksburg, it...
by editor | Dec 15, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
2020 will surely qualify as an “annus horribilis” in the history of the Republic. By New Year’s, one in every 1,000 Americans, 330,000, will be dead from the worst pandemic in 100 years. The U.S. economy will have sustained a blow to rival the worst...
by editor | Dec 14, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: Woodrow Wilson Home in Columbia Getting New Name, Mission COLUMBIA — Caretakers of Woodrow Wilson’s teenage home have changed its name in an effort to more fully capture the racially complex history surrounding America’s 28th president. The Woodrow...
by editor | Dec 10, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Most presidential pardons — indeed all pardons that President Donald Trump has issued — have been for specific crimes of which the subject of the pardon has already been charged and convicted. Yet, Trump, never one to be restrained by precedent, has let it be hinted...
by editor | Dec 9, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The reach of South Carolina’s Reconstruction Era National Historical Park just got a little broader. Unlike many national parks, it’s based around a period of history rather than a particular landmark or natural feature. Its address is in Beaufort County, but its...
by editor | Dec 8, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Walter Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read his syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his opinions boldly and unequivocally there. But not in the...