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News From Around the South 1/9 to 1/16

by RIS Secure | Jan 17, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan

ALABAMA: President Designates Three Civil Rights Sites as National Monuments As he approached his last week as the US President, Barack Obama designated three national monuments that represent post-Civil War Reconstruction and Civil Rights heritage. Announced...

Hollywood’s Civil War History

by RIS Secure | Jan 11, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan

California is famous for the 1849 Gold Rush, but how many people realize that its gold paid for one-fourth of the Union’s Civil War expenses? The state’s important but sometimes overlooked role in the conflict gave West Hollywood a Civil War history of its own – and...

Is ‘Speculation’ News?

by RIS Secure | Jan 4, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan

At the dawn of 2017, let us offer a philosophical question for the news media. If the scourge of the new year is “fake news,” should we not concede that it’s not news to speculate about what will happen after a news event? The problem is, without...

Can Trump, Putin Avoid Cold War II?

by RIS Secure | Jan 3, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan

In retaliation for the hacking of John Podesta and the DNC, Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and ordered closure of their country houses on Long Island and Maryland’s Eastern shore. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that 35 U.S. diplomats would be...

News From Around the South 12/26 to 1/2

by RIS Secure | Jan 2, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan

VIRGINIA: Law Allows For Expansion of Historic Civil War Battlefield PETERSBURGv, a. — Virginia’s Petersburg National Battlefield, a climactic site in the collapse of the Confederacy in the Civil War, has been cleared for a huge expansion under a new law...

How Civil War Laws Helped Trump

by RIS Secure | Dec 28, 2016 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Donald Trump won the presidential election as millions of people were prevented from voting this year by rules that root back to the Civil War and were made to maintain white male political dominance. About 6.1 million people who were convicted of breaking laws could...