Who Speaks for GOP?
Last Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul rose on the Senate floor to declare a filibuster and pledge he would not sit down until either he could speak no longer or got an answer to his question about Barack Obama’s war powers. Does the president, Paul demanded to know, in...
News from Around the South 3/4 – 3/11
Virginia: Civil War Sailors Buried ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — More than 150 years after the USS Monitor sank off North Carolina during the Civil War, two unknown crewmen found in the ironclad’s turret when it was raised a decade ago were buried Friday at Arlington...
New Civil War Projects Announced
WASHINGTON — Four major universities are joining theater companies in Boston, Baltimore, Washington and Atlanta in a project to commission new plays, music and dance compositions about the Civil War and its lasting legacy. The National Civil War Project announced...
Old/New South
Don Sturkey doesn’t shoot many photos anymore. He owns a cheap digital camera, but hasn’t mastered all its functions. Sturkey’s career ended before digital photography arrived. But what a career it was. For nearly 40 years at The Charlotte Observer, Sturkey took...
Rethink Stereotypes of the South
“Why do so many people think the South is so bad?” one of my international students asked me this winter on the first day of a class I taught about Southern history and culture. “I think it’s pretty great here.” Lacking a good reply, “me too” was all I could muster....Obiter Dicta
We’ve seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their Read More
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VIRGINIA: Mobile museum bringing Virginia history across the Commonwealth CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — It is a truck on a mission to teach young students and families about Virginia history. While Read More