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Ending the Backlash
"Ending the Backlash on LGBTQI+ Issues" is the title of the report out this week from the respected liberal think tank The Center...
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News From Around the South, 7/20 to 7/27
SOUTH CAROLINA: A ‘treasure hunt’ with a purpose: USC students seek clues to university’s untold past A ring of portable yellow barriers surrounds...
Following President George Washington’s footsteps through Salem and the Guilford battlefield
In the spring of 1791, President George Washington visited Salem and the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse as part of a tour of the southern U.S. that took him from Virginia to Georgia, according to Warren L. Bingham, author of a book about the trip. Washington believed his trip would increase public interest in the federal government, Bingham told about 70 people in his May 30 visit to...
Civil War Combat – Gettysburg’s Wheatfield: The Show that Left me Wanting More
The 1990s played host to some of the best-known pieces of Civil War media, from Gettysburg to The Civil War Journal. The decade was a Civil War...
Confederate flag image at NC’s Great American State Fair stand sparks backlash
Visitors hoping to celebrate North Carolina’s history at the Great American State Fair last week were instead met with an ugly reminder of its...