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The Mason-Dixon Line

by RIS Secure | Oct 5, 2016 | Archive, Southern Partisan

In 1763-67 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed and marked most of the boundaries between Maryland, Pennsylvania and the Three Lower Counties that became Delaware. The survey, commissioned by the Penn and Calvert families to settle their long-running boundary...

Discrimination and Segregation

by RIS Secure | Oct 4, 2016 | Archive, Southern Partisan

I was invited, along with several other American professors, to deliver lectures at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1979. Pieter Willem Botha was the prime minister, and apartheid, though becoming a bit relaxed, was the law of...

News From Around the South 9/26 to 10/3

by RIS Secure | Oct 3, 2016 | Archive, Southern Partisan

FLORIDA: Confederate Flag Sparks Black Lives Matter Protest at High School BRADENTON, Fla.– Multiple Manatee County high schools came together in showings of protest Thursday after a Confederate flag was brought onto the Manatee High School campus on Wednesday...

Lester Holt Learns Lauer Lesson

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

Washington Post reporter Callum Borchers should win some kind of award for the worst pre-debate spin. He tried to defend NBC anchor and presidential debate host Lester Holt: “It turns out Holt is actually a registered Republican. Trump still might find things to...

Civil War Cavalry Tactics

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

A popular misconception of the American Civil War is the view that mounted charges against infantry were an outdated tactic. The image of charges being ordered by out-of-touch generals that did not comprehend that rifled muskets had changed combat is a common one....

News From Around the South 9/19 to 9/26

by RIS Secure | Sep 26, 2016 | Archive, Southern Partisan

VIRGINIA: Despite Alexandria Council Vote, Little Chance Appomattox Statue Will Be Removed ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The mayor of Alexandria met with the president of the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the first time last week, hoping to...