News From Around the South 12/1 – 12/8
GEORGIA: Civil War Photo Exhibit Opens WALESKA, Ga. — A unique photo exhibit centering on the Civil War is on display now through Feb. 1 at Reinhardt University in Waleska. “Images of the Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea,” from the private collection of...
The Hypocrisy Over Presidential Kids
It’s an obvious rule: Never pick on a president’s family. Elizabeth Lauten, the formerly unknown “communications director” for two-term GOP congressman Stephen Fincher resigned after a national-media feeding frenzy over some stupid words about...Lower Oil Prices = Free Market Victory
Seldom has so much good news been portrayed so negatively. Oil prices continue to fall in the U.S. and around the world, but nearly everyone in the media is grumpy about it. The headlines today are among the silliest I’ve seen: Energy-company stocks are...The Myth of Black Confederates
Patrick R. Cleburne, a prominent general in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, could see what was happening in the South in late 1863. Southern troops were outnumbered, soldiers were demoralized, and the institution of slavery was collapsing. So on January 2, 1864,...News From Around the South 11/24 – 12/1
TENNESSEE: Archaeologist Finds ‘Pristine’ Civil War Site A Knoxville archaeologist said he’s discovered the remains of a small Civil War earthen fort off the Third Creek Greenway. Now Charles Faulkner is working to preserve the site he spotted eight years...Obiter Dicta
“Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?” Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: SC militias fought for America’s freedom – who fights for their battlegrounds? As a boy, Rick Wise was hooked on military history from the beginning. But he was Read More