Agency: Study Reconstruction Sites
The National Park Service has commissioned the first comprehensive review of nationally significant historical sites of the Reconstruction Era. The project, a National Historic Landmark Theme Study on the U.S. Reconstruction Era, 1861-1898, will bring attention to the...
Here Comes Caitlyn!
If you’re a student of public relations, you had to be impressed. The rollout of Bruce to Caitlyn has been handled with such mastery that you’d think we live in a country that long ago shed any deep hostility toward those who don’t easily fit into...
South Rises Again in Brazil
SANTA BARBARA D’OESTE, BRAZIL (AP) – It had all the trappings of a down-home country fair somewhere well below the Mason-Dixon line: Lynyrd Skynyrd medleys, mile-long lines for fried chicken, barbeque and draft beer, and a plethora of Confederate flags...
Frozen ‘Huevos’
Sofia Vergara is the Spanish-accented sexpot on the ABC sitcom “Modern Family.” She’s also now the center of an unwanted controversy over a “modern family.” She’s fighting with an ex-fiance over two frozen embryos. Back in 2013,...
News From Around the South 5/11 to 5/18
ALABAMA: Attorney Receives Threats After Removing Confederate Flags UNION SPRINGS, Ala. — A prominent attorney admits to taking flags from the graves of soldiers, a move that’s sparked both positive reaction and calls for him to be arrested and disbarred....Obiter Dicta
Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the Read More
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LOUISIANA: LSU struggles with multimillion-dollar athletics deficit: ‘We’ve got to stop that bleeding After years of minimal profits, LSU athletics is now tens of millions of dollars in the red. Read More