News From Around the South 5/31 to 6/6
KENTUCKY: Confederate Statue Lawyers to Drop Client In the wake of a Jefferson County judge’s decision to lift a restraining order against the planned relocation of Louisville’s controversial Confederate monument, attorneys for the plaintiffs want to be relieved from...
Are HBCUs Endangered Species?
Elizabeth City State University faced a brief existential crisis last month when North Carolina lawmakers toyed with the idea of closing the historically black institution. The lawmakers backed off, but the episode was just one in a series of challenges facing the...
Memorial Day Started to Honor Civil War Vets
Here’s a trivia question for armchair historians: Was the first Memorial Day celebrated in Columbus, Georgia, or Columbus, Mississippi? According to strict calendric interpretation, Columbus, Mississippi, celebrated the holiday first, on April 25, 1866, but only...
News From Around the South 5/24 to 5/31
VIRGINIA: Looters Hit Civil War Site PETERSBURG, Va. — Looters ripped up parts of Virginia’s Petersburg National Battlefield in an apparent search for relics from a siege that led to the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the National Park Service said...Obiter Dicta
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LOUISIANA: YouTube channel Louisiana Dread preserves Southern culture by sharing history, folktales Bayou-born YouTube channel Louisiana Dread is serving up swamp monsters, gumbo reviews and history lessons in an effort Read More