Flag Dogs Boggs
WASHINGTON — One of President Barack Obama’s most beleaguered judicial nominees, Michael Boggs, finally got his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. And it wasn’t pretty. One by one, for nearly two hours, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee laid into Boggs...News from Around the South 5/5 – 5/12
SOUTH CAROLINA: Confederate Groups Seek New Members ANDERSON, S.C. — About 40 people gathered Saturday morning in front of the Anderson County Courthouse to observe Confederate Memorial Day. The annual event, staged by the Palmetto Sharpshooters...
Grotesque
“Grotesque.” That’s what the Simon Wiesenthal Center called the assignment given to eighth-grade students in Rialto, Calif., to research and write an argumentative essay about whether the Holocaust actually happened or was “merely a political...News from Around the South 4/28 – 5/5
VIRGINIA: Archaeologists Map Civil War Cemetery LYNCHBURG, Va. — Four archaeologists stood among a 45-foot by 10-foot trench within “Yankee Square” at Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg on Sunday afternoon. Using brooms and shovels, they uncovered a patchwork of...Death and Despair: Civil War Prisons
MILLEN, Ga. — John Charles Tarsney crossed the prisoner of war camp and spied an emaciated Union soldier to whom he had given a drink of water the evening before. “He had died during the night and was little more than a dead skeleton,” Tarsney later...Obiter Dicta
When I was 19, I knew a much older man who’d grown up in 1930s Alabama. “We didn’t celebrate the 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