News From Around the South 8/27 to 9/3
NORTH CAROLINA: UNC to Relocate Toppled Statue CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The University of North Carolina will seek a “safe, legal and alternative location” for a Civil War Confederate soldier statue that was toppled last week on campus and criticized as a symbol of...
How Colleges Should Handle Their Kellyannes
Even before Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, coined the phrase “alternative facts” about the size of the crowd at the 2017 inauguration, my inbox was bulging with messages about her role in Trump’s election. Conway, Trump’s campaign manager...
Antebellum Congress Hotbed of Violence
Scuffles seem to break out in parliaments and legislatures around the world. The last few years saw a brawl in Taiwan, a face-punch in Ukraine and a mass fight in South Africa. The floor of the U.S. Congress is home today to plenty of verbal abuse and name-calling,...
App Puts Battlefield Maps at Fingertips
Just in time for the fall travel season, the American Battlefield Trust is deploying a smartphone app that will help heritage travelers explore the nation’s Civil War battlefields and understand the fighting that transpired on them. The Trust’s Civil War Battle Maps...
John McCain and Me
About four years ago, I was browsing through one of Manhattan’s last remaining independent bookstores, when my cellphone rang. I didn’t recognize the incoming telephone number, with its 202 area code, but I assumed it was a Fox News colleague from our...Obiter Dicta
1. On Jan. 1, 2027, Joe Biden will be a. A criminal defendant in a case brought by the Trump Read More
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