The Washingtons' War

by | Apr 9, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Abraham Lincoln must have been pained by the number of Washingtons on the other side during the Civil War. He idolized George Washington. One of the first books he read as a boy was Parson Weems’s apocryphal biography of the first president, and it made a lasting...

News from Around the South 3/31 – 4/7

by | Apr 7, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

    SOUTH CAROLINA: Mystery of Confederate Soldier Solved BEAUFORT, S.C. — The answer to one of Beaufort County’s oldest mysteries will be officially unveiled next month, along with a new gravestone for the only unknown Confederate soldier buried...
If Only They'd Run for Sheriff

If Only They'd Run for Sheriff

by | Apr 4, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

In his 1972 epic on the origins of the U.S. war in Vietnam, the great journalist David Halberstam told of then-new Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s coming back from his first meeting with the top people President John F. Kennedy had picked to serve in his...

Does South Have Another Narrative?

by | Mar 26, 2014 | Archive

I was born in New York City, raised in Delaware, and spent the majority of my adult life in eastern Pennsylvania. I’ve only lived in the South for a decade, and in Atlanta at that. This past week, among the news from my home state, was the new vanity license...

News from Around the South 3/17 – 3/24

by | Mar 25, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

    SOUTH CAROLINA: Popular Civil War Exhibit Returns to Museum WALTERBORO, S.C. — David Cope’s collection of Civil War memorabilia has come full circle. “Being as my collection really took off in Walterboro, I thought it was the best place to have it...