News from Around the South 12/2-12/9

by | Dec 9, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

SOUTH CAROLINA: Sheriff Won’t Lower Flag for Nelson Mandela PICKENS, S.C. —  Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark says he won’t lower the flag outside the sheriff’s office to half-staff to honor Nelson Mandela because the South African civil rights leader was...

Picture-Perfect Propaganda

by | Dec 5, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

It might seem like another day in Tea Party Land when a conservative columnist accuses President Barack Obama’s White House of “airbrushing history” like the Stalin-era Soviet Union. But the columnist isn’t a conservative. It’s Dana...

News from Around the South 11/25-12/2

by | Dec 3, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Virginia: Old Point Comfort Landmark Razed in Civil War Sacrifice HAMPTON, Va. — One hundred fifty years ago this week, the U.S Army at Fort Monroe demolished one of Hampton Roads’ largest and best known landmarks. Opened at Old Point Comfort in 1822 to...

Appomattox and Black Freedom

by | Nov 26, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

This year’s Civil War sesquicentennial commemorations have highlighted the theme of emancipation, and appropriately so: Lincoln’s promulgation of his Emancipation Proclamation in January of 1863 was a watershed event. But if we cast our eyes back to African American...

News from Around the South 11/18-11/25

by | Nov 25, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Tennessee: Confederate Soldier Receives Posthumous Medal of Honor James Breathed, a doctor who served as a soldier in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, has been posthumously awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Only 48...