News from Around the South 4/14 – 4/21
ARKANSAS: School Boots Confederate Flag from Vehicles WALDRON, Ark. — Administrators with a small-town school in Arkansas say students are starting trouble by flying Confederate flags from their trucks, and they need to take them down or face suspension. The...The Washingtons' War
Abraham Lincoln must have been pained by the number of Washingtons on the other side during the Civil War. He idolized George Washington. One of the first books he read as a boy was Parson Weems’s apocryphal biography of the first president, and it made a lasting...News from Around the South 3/31 – 4/7
SOUTH CAROLINA: Mystery of Confederate Soldier Solved BEAUFORT, S.C. — The answer to one of Beaufort County’s oldest mysteries will be officially unveiled next month, along with a new gravestone for the only unknown Confederate soldier buried...
If Only They'd Run for Sheriff
In his 1972 epic on the origins of the U.S. war in Vietnam, the great journalist David Halberstam told of then-new Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s coming back from his first meeting with the top people President John F. Kennedy had picked to serve in his...Obiter Dicta
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