WASHINGTON — Who will speak for President Donald Trump at his state funeral, far in the future though it should [...]
News From Around the South 12/3 to 12/10
NORTH CAROLINA: Group Flies Confederate Flag to Honor Civil War Dead
BURKE COUNTY, N.C. – The Sons of Confederate Veterans have placed [...]
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Sep05
News from Around the South for Week of 9/3
on September 5th, 2012 at 4:51 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Alabama: Hurricane Isaac uncovers Confederate ‘mystery ship’ By Paul Conner, The Daily Caller In the latest installment of a spooky pattern of events, Hurricane Isaac uncovered a boat believed to be a Civil War blockade runner on the beaches of Gulf Shores, Ala. Photos of the ship were posted to Facebook by Meyer Vacation Rentals. Gulf […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Sep06
What I Ask of Romney and Obama
on September 6th, 2012 at 5:41 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
The Republican Convention ended on the theme “Believe in America.” That sounded nice, but it was just another platitude. Mitt Romney’s speech was filled with platitudes: “We will honor America’s democratic ideals. … We’re united to preserve liberty.” Please. Liberals and conservatives have real differences. We should state them. America is going broke, and tough […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep10
According to a new poll by The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., 54 percent of likely voters believe President Obama does not deserve another term based on his economic record. With rising gas prices once again punishing working Americans and with fear in the air over unemployment, there is a very good chance that Obama […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep12
News from Around the South, 9/5-9/12
on September 12th, 2012 at 5:40 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Tennessee: Civil War cannons return to Memphis’ Confederate Park By Kevin McKenzie, Memphis Commercial Appeal Just in time for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, four cannons resembling those used during the War between the States were installed in Confederate Park in Downtown Memphis on Wednesday. Just as intended, the replica artillery immediately sparked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep13
How Technology Shaped the Civil War
on September 13th, 2012 at 5:06 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
* Secession not only spurred rapid improvements in warships and weapons, but also led to advances in communications and medicine By James Marten, Scientific American Any Civil War buff is familiar with the technological advances of that era: the carnage caused when tactics failed to accommodate breech-loading rifled muskets and artillery pieces, the truly revolutionary […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep17
On Jan. 8, 1962, President John F. Kennedy wrote a letter celebrating the work of James Cardinal Gibbons, who died in 1921. Kennedy, who rarely discussed his Catholicism, did so while describing the Cardinal: “He nobly expresses the essential traditions of my church in the United States … the deep sympathy for the plight of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep18
The Sharpshooter 1862-1864, by Charles Phillips Charles Phillips takes his reader back to the days of the Nueces massacre, an intense and violent conflict between the Confederate soldiers and the German Texans of August of 1862 in his novel The Sharpshooter: 1862-1864. Like many other first-generation German immigrants living in Kinney County, Texas, Jurian Baecker did not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Civil War Spy to Legendary Lawman
Pop culture always tells the stories of the outlaws of the Wild West. Lying, cheating, drinking, robbing banks, holding up train cars, getting into shootouts at high noon — these are all objectively cool things [...]
New Software Solves Civil War Mysteries
Kurt Luther used facial recognition technology and the image on the left as a reference to identify the man in photo on the right as Francis Marion Eveleth.
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Library of [...]
