Book Review: Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War
In the summer of 1857, abolitionist Rev. John Rankin, at a meeting of the National Emancipation Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, advocated for compensated emancipation as the only viable way to end slavery in the United States. “Life was more precious than money, and…...
News From Around the South, 10/27 to 11/3
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Confederate statue restored as part of Trump’s efforts to reshape how history is told WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that demonstrators took down during...
Shoot First, Ask Questions When?
The United States is engaged in summary executions on the high seas. That bald fact is being obscured by talk of drug interdiction and war powers and whether we’re certain the drugs on those boats were headed for the United States or somewhere else. Let’s...
American Folklore Is More Than Just Scary Stories; It Carries a Value System
DONEGAL, Pennsylvania — It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You’re hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 minutes until sunset, and you have just over a mile to go,...Obiter Dicta
While the country’s attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: North Charleston Community Seeks to Protect HIstoric Roots NORTH CHARLESTON — For lifelong resident Kerry Gambrell, Liberty Hill has always been home. Gambrell, now in his 60s, grew Read More