Education Advocates: Remove ‘Bad History’
When the State Board of Education passed new social studies standards in 2010, there was an outcry from critics who said they prioritized conservative views over historical facts. As the board edits the standards this year, some see an opportunity to correct these...
#MeToo: Hillary and Monica Edition
WASHINGTON — There is a growing debate on the left over whose side to take in the simmering controversy between Monica Lewinsky and former President Bill Clinton or the Clintons, depending on how long Hillary Clinton remains loyal to Bill, or, come to think of it, how...
Trump Administration Gets Civil War History Wrong — Again
Attorney General Jeff Sessions might need to brush up on his US history. During a speech last week on California’s sanctuary laws, he did something unexpected: He compared California to Southern states that seceded from the Union before the US Civil War. The attorney...
News From Around the South 3/6 to 3/12
MARYLAND: Civil War Monument Where 58 Dead NC Soldiers Were Thrown Into Well Vandalized A North Carolina Civil War monument at Maryland’s South Mountain State Battlefield was vandalized over the weekend. The Friends of South Mountain Battlefield posted images of the...
Old Slave Mart Gets New Life
When Charleston’s Old Slave Mart Museum opened its doors on Feb. 21, 1938, the privately run tourist attraction was a ball of contradictions. Founded by an Ohio transplant, the site made many white Charlestonians uncomfortable by putting a part of its slave...Obiter Dicta
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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