I’m With Newsom
I don’t always say that. Sometimes the California governor and would-be 2028 contender drives me slightly crazy with his transparent stunts to get attention. But this is not a stunt. The redistricting bill that the California legislature passed and Newsom signed...
News From Around the South, 8/18 to 8/25
NORTH CAROLINA: $85M Civil War History Museum Breaks Ground in Fayetteville, NC Balfour Beatty and Varnedoe Construction recently broke ground on the final phase of The North Carolina Center on Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction in Fayetteville, N.C. The...
Public Safety and the Presidency
President Donald Trump argued last week that as a result of the federal enhancement of police work in Washington, D.C., the city has gone in four days from being the most dangerous in America to being the safest. He cited no evidence but relied apparently on his own...
A new reading of Sherman’s march shows how enslaved people sought to free themselves
A recent book focuses on the experience of those who used the event as an emancipatory movement The story of Sherman’s march to the sea is often remembered for its destruction of the south. Led by the Union general William Tecumseh Sherman through Georgia from 15...Obiter Dicta
Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 Read More
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GEORGIA — National civil rights museum expanding. Unlike Smithsonian, Trump has no immediate sway over its content A popular museum in Atlanta is expanding at a critical moment in the Read More