by editor | Apr 24, 2024 | Archive, Cartoon, Southern Partisan
When I recently visited Montgomery, Alabama, I went to see the rows of rusted plinths that together make up the city’s Peace and Justice Memorial. The memorial is designed to replicate the cycle of a lynching. Walking through the memorial, one will see plinths hanging...
by editor | Apr 23, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania — Several years ago the Smithsonian magazine ran an elegant story about the use of postcards in American culture as a way both to communicate to loved ones far away and to illustrate what the traveler wants you to see about where they have been....
by editor | Apr 22, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
NORTH CAROLINA: Two ‘Human’Caused’ Fires Found at 16th Century Historic Site Two fires were discovered simultaneously at a North Carolina historic site dedicated to England’s first settlements on the continent — and investigators say they were “human...
by editor | Apr 18, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Last week, the Supreme Court effectively abolished the right to assembly in three Southern states. By refusing to hear an appeal of a speaker accused of being liable for what a protester did in an audience the speaker addressed, the court exposed all protest...
by editor | Apr 17, 2024 | Archive, Featured News, Southern Partisan
In December 1979, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, the founding director of the Southern Oral History Program, sat down to interview Nell Sigmon about her life in western North Carolina. As Hall explained the value of the retired hosiery worker’s story for understanding the early...