by RIS Secure | May 14, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
In early May 1865, Varina Howell Davis reached the state of Georgia after having fled Richmond a month earlier. She was traveling with her four young children, her sister Margaret, two servants and a soldier who was related to the family. President Jefferson Davis had...
by RIS Secure | May 12, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
If the GOP doesn’t put together a sensible immigration policy, it will lose the 2016 presidential election. When Obama beat Romney in 2012, with the former Massachusetts governor attracting only 27 percent of the Hispanic vote with his self-deportation argument,...
by RIS Secure | May 8, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Hollywood and global-warming panic have always been a natural match. After all, who can tell you better to cut back on your wasteful ways better than a high-flying multimillionaire movie star with the carbon footprint of a Tyrannosaurus rex? It’s never mattered...
by RIS Secure | May 7, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
For many Americans, choosing a side in the Civil War was no easy task. While most people simply sided with their home state, others struggled with family pressures, personal political beliefs and their devotion to the federal government. Unwilling to break their...
by RIS Secure | May 6, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
For serious historians of the Civil War, William C. Davis is the ultimate go-to source for reliable information on a conflict that spawned a staggering amount of mythology. He is the author of more than 50 books on the war and the South, and until recently was...
by RIS Secure | May 5, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Had Freddie Gray been robbed, beaten and left to die in the streets of his Baltimore neighborhood, no one would be mourning him today. No one would be marching for Freddie. No one would be using Freddie as the new poster child of “Black Lives Matter!” No...