News from Around the South 7/29 – 8/5

Georgia: Brown’s Mill Battlefield Celebrates Grand Opening NEWNAN, Ga. — History came alive last week when more than 350 people came to take in the sights at the grand opening of the Brown’s Mill Battlefield Civil War Historic Site located south of Newnan...

Heroes and Memory

When I first arrived in America a few years ago, one of the first things I noticed was the road name, Jefferson Davis Highway. For a moment, I wondered whether I was trapped in the 2004 mockumentary C.S.A: the Confederate States of America, where the South had won the...

Waiting for the Robert E. Lee

Winston Churchill once said, “The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.” The Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted their 118th National Reunion during the month of July, 2013 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Christine Barr, an...
Hero or Traitor?

Hero or Traitor?

Neither. During the trial, the prosecution sought to paint U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning as an anarchist and a traitor, while the defense portrayed him as naive and well-intentioned. The judge, rightly, rejected both characterizations, finding Manning not guilty of...

The Color of Hope

My friend Charles Krauthammer, a thinking man’s pundit, believes some problems cannot be solved. Charles points to the Palestinian-Israeli situation and to the collapse of the traditional black family in America. I disagree. It is possible to change black...