Amid Monument Wars, A Rally For ‘More History’
On Saturday, a group of about 30 mustered under drizzly skies at the edge of the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa. The site of one of the bloodiest and most important battles of the Civil War, Gettysburg has seen its share of clashes over the memory of the war in recent...
Racial Discrimination
During slavery, many black women, often in a forcible union with a white man, bore mixed-race children. Based on their percentage of white blood, they were deemed “mulattos,” “quadroons,” “octoroons” or even...
News From Around the South 10/5 to 10/12
WEST VIRGINIA: Civil War Trails See Influx of Interest in Pandemic MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — All around the area and up and down the East Coast, Civil War Trails signs can be found, highlighting areas that played vital parts in American history. Since the start of the...
Trump’s Republican Party
Kelly Loeffler looked like a standard-issue Republican when she was appointed senator from Georgia in December 2019. She came from a super-rich family (like plenty of Democrats as well), she was pro-gun, anti-immigration and pro-business. Originally pro-choice, her...
The Problem of Confederate Statues on Public Lands
Let’s do a mental exercise about Confederate monuments in public spaces: I’ll describe one that doesn’t exist, and you tell me whether you’d find it offensive if it did. It sits near a major city, on a scenic patch of federally owned land, in what used to be a...Obiter Dicta
On the eve of our nation’s 249th birthday, a Gallup poll finds that only 58% of Americans feel “extremely” or Read More
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