Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson, noted scholar, historian and educator, created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became Black History Month in 1976. Woodson chose February because it coincided with the birthdays of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President...
News From Around the South 2/5 to 2/12
NORTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Could Fly Over Hillsborough HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A Southern heritage group based in Alamance County is talking with the owners of multiple Orange County sites about erecting a Confederate battle flag on their land. At least one...
Museum Seeks Slave ‘Ellis Island’ Experience
By the time South Carolina celebrates its next Black History Month, construction of the historic International African American Museum should be underway. The long-planned Charleston museum is slated to break ground this summer. Its opening is scheduled for 2020,...
The Southern Spy Network
Reliable Confederate spy records are hard to find. When Union troops were on their way to the South’s capital in Richmond, the Confederate Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin, panicked and burned every bit of them that he could find. Diligent historians have,...Obiter Dicta
The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: To save SC’s historic Black schools, nonprofit launches statewide coalition The South Carolina Historic Black Schools Preservation Network is meant to help pool resources and knowledge in saving Read More