America Today Resembles 1910 More Than Postwar Era
What’s your benchmark? What is the historical era with which you compare life in contemporary America? For many astute commentators on various points of the political spectrum, it is postwar America, the two decades after the United States and its allies won...
News From Around the South 5/9 to 5/16
SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston Honors Civil War Memorial Day Tradition CHARLESTON, SC — The recently state-sanctioned Confederate Memorial Day holiday is past, but Saturday marks a celebration held annually in Charleston since the late 1800s. Civil War re-enactors...
Southern Culture for Internationals
Almost all of them know who Michael Jordan is. But when it comes to ordering eggs in a restaurant – fried, poached, hard boiled, scrambled, over easy – they’re pretty much stumped by the terminology. America is a complex and baffling place for UNC’s international...
News From Around the South 5/2 to 5/9
FLORIDA: KKK Protests Black Confederate Flag Supporter JACKSONVILLE — A Southern Civil Rights activist – supporting the rights of the South – was protested by the KKK recently in downtown Jacksonville. H.K. Edgerton, a black man, was paying his...Obiter Dicta
One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. Read More
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