News From Around the South 6/5 to 6/12
GEORGIA: Georgia Teen’s Civil War Diary to Be Published MACON, Ga. — LeRoy Wiley Gresham’s short, painful life in Macon ended about the same time as the Civil War, but he left behind a legacy treasured by historians. Starting in 1860 at the age of 12, a...
Behind Trump’s Exasperation
At the G-7 summit in Canada, President Donald Trump described America as “the piggy bank that everybody is robbing.” After he left Quebec, his director of Trade and Industrial Policy, Peter Navarro, added a few parting words for Prime Minister Justin...
Triumphs of the Reconstruction
The era in United States history known as Reconstruction forms a sort of coda to the traumatic years of the American Civil War of 1861-1865. It also the ugly duckling of American history. The 12 years that are the conventional designation of the Reconstruction period,...
Forgotten Munitions Get New Spotlight
This story is more Cold Case Files than clickbait. Archaeologists really did find more than 1,000 Civil War era objects and munitions dumped into Buffalo Bayou under the Milam Street bridge. The thing is, the objects were found in the 1960s and then seemingly...
Monuments Slow to Come Down
A report released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center finds that 110 monuments and other symbols of the Confederacy publicly displayed in the United States have been removed since the summer of 2015, when a white supremacist who venerated those symbols killed...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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GEORGIA: Alicia Johnson sworn in as first Black woman elected to Georgia Public Service Commission Dr. Alicia Johnson was ceremonially sworn in this week as Georgia’s newest Public Service Commissioner, Read More