News From Around the South 8/21 to 8/28

News From Around the South 8/21 to 8/28

NORTH CAROLINA: UNC Says It Can’t Legally Remove Confederate Statue The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said on Tuesday that it did not have the legal authority to remove a Confederate monument from its campus, despite guidance from Gov. Roy Cooper...
Donald Trump’s Problematic Device

Donald Trump’s Problematic Device

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is in trouble again with his Moral Superiors. His problem, of course, is that he cannot throttle his B.S. Detector. It seems he acquired a B.S. Detector at some point in life that has usually served him well. It certainly did during...
Tracking Monument Removals

Tracking Monument Removals

Monuments celebrating figures of the Confederacy have surged back into the national spotlight after the deadly violence that erupted this month at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Since the violence in Charlottesville, some protesters have reacted by...
HBO: What if the South Had Won?

HBO: What if the South Had Won?

“What if” has always been the favorite game of Civil War historians. Now, thanks to David Benioff and D.B. Weiss — the team that created HBO’s insanely popular Game of Thrones — it looks as though we’ll get a chance to see that “what if” on screen. Their new project,...
News From Around the South 8/14 to 8/21

News From Around the South 8/14 to 8/21

TEXAS: UT-Austin Removes Confederate Statue in Middle of Night Late Sunday night, 10 days before classes were scheduled to start, workers at the University of Texas at Austin began removing three Confederate statues from a prominent grass mall on campus. The surprise...