News from Around the South, 5/6 – 5/13
Mississippi: Civil War Letters Going Home JACKSON, Miss. — Richard Bridges seemed like a typical college student in his letters home. He tells family members he may need more money and clothes, talks about hanging out with friends and sounds a little homesick. But...
Mother Love
My daughter was born on Mother’s Day, 23 years ago. It was the happiest day of my life — matched only, almost three years later, by the birth of my son. I had never felt such love before. Hooray for Hallmark. Years passed. My own mother died. My daughter went...Civil Rights' 50th
ATLANTA — Key events in 1963, from protests in Alabama to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, galvanized the civil rights movement that eventually toppled Jim Crow laws in the South. The 50th anniversary of those events is a great...Stonewall Best General?
At a time when much was going wrong for the South in the Civil War, Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson carried the hopes of a nation on his lightning marches through the Shenandoah Valley. He was a rock star in 1862-63, legendary on both sides of the conflict. When he died...News from Around the South, April 29 – May 6
Georgia: Petition Seeks to Remove Confederate Monument from Stone Mountain ATLANTA — Aunt Pittypat, don’t faint. A metro Atlanta resident has created an online petition calling for the removal of the Confederate monument from the face of Stone Mountain....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