News From Around the Suuth 4/26 to 5/3
GEORGIA: Stone Mountain Park Considers Changes STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — A park near Atlanta with a giant carving of Confederate leaders would publicly acknowledge that it was a gathering spot for the Ku Klux Klan, relocate Confederate flags and remove the carving...
Unconscionable Debt And Future Generations
Earlier this week, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. asked Congress to raise taxes and increase borrowing so his administration can spend $2.3 trillion — on top of the $1.9 trillion Congress authorized two months ago for so-called COVID relief — for thousands of projects...
Before the Civil War, New Orleans Was the Center of the U.S. Slave Trade
Waiting for the slave ship United States near the New Orleans wharves in October 1828, Isaac Franklin may have paused to consider how the city had changed since he had first seen it from a flatboat deck 20 years earlier. The New Orleans that Franklin, one of the...
The D.C Statehood Power Grab
“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?” asked President Abraham Lincoln, who answered his own question: “Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” And Congress’ saying that D.C. is a state would...
News From Around the South 4/19 to 4/26
VIRGINIA: New Travel Map And App Offers Insight Into Black Experience In Civil War The American Battlefield Trust and Civil War Trails Inc. began their latest project more than a year ago having no idea how pertinent that work would become. The recently released Road...Obiter Dicta
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Confederate statue restored as part of Trump’s efforts to reshape how history is told WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Read More