A Grand Old Party?
News From Around the South for Week of 8/27
Mississippi: For Miss., an angst-filled Civil War Anniversary By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS – Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War can be an angst-filled task in Mississippi, with its long history of racial...
Last Hurrah of Nixon's 'New Majority'?
Looking back all the way to America’s Civil War, there have been three dominant presidential coalitions. The first was Abraham Lincoln’s. With his war to restore the Union and his martyrdom, Lincoln inaugurated an era of Republican dominance that lasted...
Leading Faulker Scholar passes
We came across these two items in the Picayune (Miss.) Item and thought they’d be of interest to Southern Partisan readers about the passing of the country’s preeminent William Faulkner scholar: Services Set for Polk Memorial HATTIESBURG — A memorial...Recent Posts
VIRGINIA: Where it all began: Virginia and the Black History Movement RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – This year marks a major milestone that helped shape how the United States of America Read More