News from Around the South 11/25-12/2

by | Dec 3, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Virginia: Old Point Comfort Landmark Razed in Civil War Sacrifice HAMPTON, Va. — One hundred fifty years ago this week, the U.S Army at Fort Monroe demolished one of Hampton Roads’ largest and best known landmarks. Opened at Old Point Comfort in 1822 to...

Appomattox and Black Freedom

by | Nov 26, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

This year’s Civil War sesquicentennial commemorations have highlighted the theme of emancipation, and appropriately so: Lincoln’s promulgation of his Emancipation Proclamation in January of 1863 was a watershed event. But if we cast our eyes back to African American...

News from Around the South 11/18-11/25

by | Nov 25, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Tennessee: Confederate Soldier Receives Posthumous Medal of Honor James Breathed, a doctor who served as a soldier in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, has been posthumously awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Only 48...
Pelosi : No one likes their plan

Pelosi : No one likes their plan

by | Nov 21, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Asked whether she needed to apologize to the formerly insured who have lost their health insurance plans, former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, “Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if...

Flannery O'Conner Journal Surfaces

by | Nov 20, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

  Flannery O’Connor’s “A Prayer Journal” is a moving glimpse of a young writer seeking to balance her art with her faith. In 1946, O’Connor began writing the prayers in a common black-and-white schoolbook, when she was 21 and studying in Iowa. At the time she was...