News from Around the South 9/11 to 9/16
Alabama: Selma Moves Forward with Plans to Sell Confederate Circle SELMA, Ala. — The Selma City Council took a step toward solving a 136-year-old question of ownership Tuesday evening. The council voted 4-1 to begin the process of selling an acre of land in Old...The Advantage of Place
From an interview with Walker Percy: You don’t consider yourself a Southern writer, then? I’m not sure that I do. If I were in Colorado or New York, I would be writing something different. Really? I think what we’re stuck with in the South, and what’s of value, are...VA headstone policy wrong
CLEVELAND, Ohio – If Ira Cook had died today, chances are there’d be no problem getting a headstone for him from the Memorial Affairs Division of the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides that service for all U.S. veterans. But Cook, a black Union Army...
Road to Damascus
Some things you just have to do, in spite of great uncertainty. Launching missiles at Syria isn’t one of them. Many pundits talk about going to war as if all we have to do is make up our minds about what “ought” to happen — who the bad guys are — and...Marrow of Tragedy
Walt Whitman, who volunteered in military hospitals, knew the gruesomeness of the “real” Civil War firsthand. He described the war not as a glorious national crusade to defend the Union or to eradicate slavery, but rather as “an unending, universal mourning-wail of...Obiter Dicta
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More