Harvard Law Reviews Slavery Crest
Harvard Law School officials are reviewing the use of the school’s seal, which displays part of the crest of a slaveholding family. The school’s seal includes three bushels of wheat, which also appears on the coat of arms for the family of Isaac Royall, a slaveholder...
News From Around the South 11/30 to 12/7
TENNESSEE: Perspectives Clash at Racial Forum MTSU students, most of them black, demanded the name of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest be removed from the university’s ROTC hall, some calling it “institutionalized racism” at a Tuesday forum....
Students Want Lee’s Name Off School
Robert E. Lee Elementary School opened in Paradise Hills in 1959, nearly a century after the Civil War ended, and amid the national strife of school desegregation efforts. Today, students at Lee want their school to drop its Confederate name to better reflect the...
The Civil War in Five minutes
Watch the U.S. Civil War unfold a day at a time in this animated map. The creator, EmperorTigerstar, attempted to represent every single day’s movements in the front lines, resulting in a fascinating view of the conflict. He’s made many more just like it....
Are Trump and Putin Right?
Monday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” hosted a spirited discussion with Donald Trump on whether he was right in asserting that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated as the towers came down on 9/11. About Muslim celebrations in Berlin, however, there appears to be...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More