The Battle of Latta
If you want to get technical about it, the Civil War has been over for 148 years. Still, sporadic fighting breaks out occasionally — as it did in a South Carolina school district over the right to wear a Confederate flag to school. When the encyclopedia of student...News From Around the South 4/15 – 4/22
Georgia: Mayor Praises Confederate Memorial Effort MARIETTA, Ga. — Members of the United Daughters of Confederacy Kennesaw Chapter were joined by a little over 50 others Sunday to celebrate Confederate Memorial Day. The family friendly event was held at the...
Boston Bombings Only Unite Us
We witnessed pure evil Monday at the Boston Marathon — a kind of debauched, monstrous cunning that leaves individuals numb with grief and asking: “Why?” Terrorism is a reprehensible tactic — no matter foreign or domestic — one that seeks to bring down as...The South and the New Deal
Invoking “dysfunction” is now the basic black of punditry about American politics. As the British political theorist David Runciman recently observed in the London Review of Books, “Commentators find it almost impossible to write about American democracy these days...A Complex History
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — When I told friends I was planning a trip to Birmingham, the reaction was universal. “Alabama?” one asked. “On purpose?” I shared their skepticism, viewing the travel literature with the jaundiced eye of a longtime Angeleno...Obiter Dicta
The Washington Post put it this way: Platner, before the latest allegation, faced scrutiny for old social media posts dismissive 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