News From Around the South, 11/24 to 12/1 - TENNESSEE: Battle of Franklin Trust to mark Civil War anniversaries Three Williamson County battlefields are set to mark the 161st anniversaries of two pivotal Civil War conflicts on Saturday and Sunday. The Battle of Franklin Trust will host abbreviated after-hours tours at Rippa Villa in Spring Hill on Saturday and at Carter House and Carnton […]
Thanksgiving - It cuts to the core, through the hot air and the blue smoke and mirrors of our politics, to what really matters. Tatianna Schlossberg’s essay in The New Yorker is the one thing you must read this holiday season to touch base with what is real — including grief,but it also love and rage. A […]
Une fête française: Lowcountry’s connection to the ‘first’ Thanksgiving - BEAUFORT — The story of the first Thanksgiving in North America nearly perfectly embodies the truism that history is written by the victors. Representations of the “first” Thanksgiving are rife with English pilgrims and Native Americans celebrating a bountiful harvest in Plymouth, Mass., in the fall of 1621. That’s all true enough. But according to […]
How to Remain Grounded and Thankful Amid the Chaos - In a year marked by political vitriol in seemingly every conversation, a relentless scourge of political violence, and the highest-profile political assassination since 1968, Thanksgiving arrives just in time. Truthfully, it always does. And it always reminds us that long before Americans were addicted to constant clickbait-driven outrage, ours was a nation rooted in gratitude. […]
News From Around the South, 11/17 to 11/24 - TEXAS: Texas education board debates narrowing focus of history curriculum In September, the board adopted a plan that emphasizes Texas and U.S. history, while reducing focus on world history and cultures. AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is moving forward with discussions of changes to how public schools teach social studies. […]
