News from Around the South 4/21 – 4/28
GEORGIA: Groups Remember Ancestors at Confederate Cemetery MARIETTA — Beneath large shade trees and in the midst of thousands of Confederate flags perched near tombstones Sunday, the Daughters of Confederate Veterans on Confederate Memorial Day honored their ancestors...God Movies Make Money
The accountants in Hollywood don’t have to believe in heaven to notice the box office numbers on recent movies with religious themes. “Heaven Is for Real” opened in the days before Easter and grossed more than $22 million, coming in second for the...CSA Memorial Day
Sir Winston Churchill once said: “The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and...News from Around the South 4/14 – 4/21
ARKANSAS: School Boots Confederate Flag from Vehicles WALDRON, Ark. — Administrators with a small-town school in Arkansas say students are starting trouble by flying Confederate flags from their trucks, and they need to take them down or face suspension. The...The Washingtons' War
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...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