News From Around the South 4/29 to 5/6
NORTH CAROLINA: Residents, Religious Leaders Discuss Name Change of Dixie Classic Fair WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Dozens of local residents and religious leaders made their voices heard regarding the name “Dixie Classic Fair” on Tuesday night as part of...
Can Attorney General Defend Presidential Obstruction?
One should expect fireworks this week as Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Judiciary Committees of both the House and the Senate about the investigation and the report of special counsel Robert Mueller regarding Russian interference in the 2016...
Five Books On The Battle of New Orleans
On this week 157 years ago, New Orleans fell to Union forces in shocking fashion. Many observers then and now (including the author of an upcoming ECW volume) have deemed the sudden loss of the South’s largest city and its extensive port and manufacturing...
News From Around the South 4/22 to 4/29
VIRGINIA: Judge Rules City Can’t Move Confederate Monuments CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – A Virginia judge has ruled that statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson in Charlottesville are war monuments that the...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: With location and design selected, SC’s Robert Smalls monument needs funding The monument is expected to cost between $1 million and $2 million for the cost of the Read More