News From Around the South 7/16 to 7/23
TENNESSEE: Record Number of Tennesseans Using Confederate License Plate A record number of Tennesseans are using Confederate flag license plates amid a nationwide push to eliminate the symbolism after nine people were killed in a racially motivated attack on a...
They Swore an Oath to Defend This Country
Donald Trump’s performance in Helsinki was certainly historic. On no other occasion since the founding of this country has an American president publicly demonstrated that he is a witting agent of a hostile foreign power — even as that country’s...
Why Civil War Statues Look the Same
In recent years, the Confederate monument has gained a new level of symbolism, as the item at the center of an ongoing debate — one that reaches far beyond the subject of monuments — about how and whether a nation should remember the darkest moments of its past....
News From Around the South 7/9 to 7/16
SOUTH CAROLINA: Tentative Memorial Designed for Emanuel Nine Victims CHARLESTON, S.C. — A member of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church told their current pastor, the Rev. Eric S.C. Manning, last year: “It’s hard for me to comprehend someone could be...Obiter Dicta
I’ve always been both a small-r republican and an Anglophile, so I looked upon the British monarchy with at least Read More
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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