Appomattox and Black Freedom

by | Nov 26, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

This year’s Civil War sesquicentennial commemorations have highlighted the theme of emancipation, and appropriately so: Lincoln’s promulgation of his Emancipation Proclamation in January of 1863 was a watershed event. But if we cast our eyes back to African American...

News from Around the South 11/18-11/25

by | Nov 25, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Tennessee: Confederate Soldier Receives Posthumous Medal of Honor James Breathed, a doctor who served as a soldier in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, has been posthumously awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Only 48...
Pelosi : No one likes their plan

Pelosi : No one likes their plan

by | Nov 21, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Asked whether she needed to apologize to the formerly insured who have lost their health insurance plans, former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, “Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if...

Flannery O'Conner Journal Surfaces

by | Nov 20, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

  Flannery O’Connor’s “A Prayer Journal” is a moving glimpse of a young writer seeking to balance her art with her faith. In 1946, O’Connor began writing the prayers in a common black-and-white schoolbook, when she was 21 and studying in Iowa. At the time she was...