News From Around the South 6/25 to 7/2
VIRGINIA: Committee: Remove Jefferson Davis Monument, Reinterpret Others RICHMOND, Va. — Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney’s Monument Avenue Commission recommended the removal of the Jefferson Davis Monument from Monument Avenue and the addition of...
George Will is Down and Out
WASHINGTON — I have in my office a framed note from President Donald Trump. It says, “Bob, Now We Really Did It. Thanks For All Of Your Help!” The note is dated Jan. 13, 2017. He was responding to my congratulatory email to him earlier acknowledging that...
A Renaissance for Gullah Geechee Cuisine
Not much upsets Chef Benjamin “B.J.” Dennis, but any mention of black-eyed peas strikes a particular nerve. Back home, Dennis has access to more than 20 varieties of field peas, including several rare heirloom types, yet dried black-eyed peas are the only ones he sees...
America Divided Against Itself, Again
On May 22, 1856, Representative Preston Brooks entered the floor of the United States Senate, approached abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner, and beat the senator with a cane, almost taking his life. Brooks was provoked by a passionate anti-slavery speech that Sumner...
News From Around the South 6/18 to 6/25
SOUTH CAROLINA: Southern Civil War Journal Ends Up in York County No one in the South knew where the Civil War would go next. Ella Bassett Washington (1834-1898), mistress of Beall Air plantation in Jefferson County, West Virginia, thought she and her children might...Obiter Dicta
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GEORGIA: Bill backed by Confederate monument defenders knocked down in the Georgia House Sponsor argued his bill would protect all monuments, not just Confederate monuments A bill backed by neo-Confederates Read More