This Woman Helped Union Win War
Why would a woman fight to participate in a political process that purposely excluded her? How could a slave-owning Southerner become a staunch Lincoln supporter and, eventually, his trusted adviser? Did she really help plan one of the Civil War’s most successful...
Challenges for Black People
President Barack Obama and his first attorney general, Eric Holder, called for an honest conversation about race. Holder even called us “a nation of cowards” because we were unwilling to have a “national conversation” about race. The truth of...
News From Around the South 7/4 to 7/11
SOUTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Flies Again at S.C. State House COLUMBIA, S.C — After its removal from the State House grounds a year ago, the Confederate flag was back – if just for the day. Flag supporters staged a rally on the grounds Sunday – the one-year...
Who really captured Robert E. Lee’s Son?
Frank Everett White Jr. is trying to correct history. Three days before Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox ended the Civil War, his son George Washington Custis Lee was captured at the Battle of Sailor’s Creek in Virginia. The U.S. Army later awarded...Obiter Dicta
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