It’s September 2019, and here’s where we are: The political left in this country is completely insane.
Elected Democrats are demonstrably [...]
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VIRGINIA: Solar Proposal Next to Civil War Battlefield Raises Concerns
They all valued the land — thousands of rolling acres [...]
Sep18
Spend any amount of time talking about slavery on the internet, and you’ll eventually encounter the claim that there were “black Confederates” that fought for the South. “Over the past few decades, claims to the existence of anywhere between 500 and 100,000 black Confederate soldiers, fighting in racially integrated units, have become increasingly common,” writes historian […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
California’s Forgotten Civil War History
Earlier this month, the last major Confederate monument in California came down. It was a curious one: a nine-foot granite pillar in an Orange County cemetery, bearing the names of several Southern leaders, including Jefferson Davis [...]
The South’s Best Small Towns
Sure, there are great small towns in other parts of the country, but in terms of history, character, scenic beauty, and local color (i.e., quirky but in a good way), the South is tough to [...]