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Who Is An American?
So now all the babies born to undocumented parents in the 28 states that didn't challenge President Donald Trump's executive order...
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News From Around the South, 6/23 to 6/30
SOUTH CAROLINA: Carolina Day marks 249th anniversary of triumph on Sullivan's Island SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, S.C. — Saturday is Carolina Day, marking the...

Visitors of Charleston Historical Sites Are Being Asked to Report ‘Negative’ Stories About America
SULLIVAN'S ISLAND — Some of the Confederate shots that started the Civil War were fired from here. And today, if you don't like what you hear or see about the story you can report it for being negative about U.S. history. In the past month, signs encouraging visitors to complete a feedback survey have recently popped up at National Park Service sites across the nation, including locally at Fort...

“The Most Incompetent Man in the Confederacy”: John Pemberton In Over His Head
ECW welcomes back guest author Lucas Simmons. John C. Pemberton ended the Civil War with a less-than-stellar reputation. Confederate surgeon John A....

Book Review: Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War
While some studies on Civil War memory appeared in the early and mid-twentieth century, those associated with the beginnings of a widening scholarly...
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Who Is An American?
So now all the babies born to undocumented parents in the 28 states that didn't challenge President Donald Trump's executive order will have to sue (anonymously, of course, lest this administration deport them, which it would if it could find them) to demand that the...
News From Around the South, 6/23 to 6/30
SOUTH CAROLINA: Carolina Day marks 249th anniversary of triumph on Sullivan's Island SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, S.C. — Saturday is Carolina Day, marking the 249th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan's Island during the Revolutionary War. The battle was the first decisive...
The Coming Police State
We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil...
Visitors of Charleston Historical Sites Are Being Asked to Report ‘Negative’ Stories About America
SULLIVAN'S ISLAND — Some of the Confederate shots that started the Civil War were fired from here. And today, if you don't like what you hear or see about the story you can report it for being negative about U.S. history. In the past month, signs encouraging visitors...
Our Homegrown Extremists
The suspect in the Minnesota murders, Vance Luther Boelter, has been charged, for now, with second-degree murder. He allegedly killed two people, Melissa and Mark Hortman, in cold blood, and shot and wounded two others. According to Minnesota police, he showed up at...