by editor | Jul 21, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
If history is written by the victors, then post-Civil War America is a rare exception to the rule, argues Chara Bohan. Last year, Bohan and her collaborators, including doctoral fellow Wade Morris, analyzed history textbooks published in the decades after...
by editor | Jul 20, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Article IV of the Constitution addresses the obligations of the federal government to the state governments that were being asked to surrender aspects of their sovereignty to form our new Union. “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a...
by editor | Jul 19, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
LOUISIANA: Confederate Statue Removed After 99 Years After standing nearly 100 years in downtown Lafayette, and serving as a flashpoint for local discussions around racial equity and justice for years, the statue of Confederate Gen. Alfred Mouton was whisked from its...
by editor | Jul 15, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“No person … shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” — Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Abdulsalam al-Hela is a 53-year-old Yemeni cleric who has been incarcerated by the United States at the Guantanamo...
by editor | Jul 15, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Rex Woolbright was sorting through his late uncle Logan Drake’s estate in Newberry when he came across an old-looking, still-corked bottle of whiskey. “It was a bottle, and that was it,” recalled Woolbright. He couldn’t have been more wrong. That bottle of whiskey is...
by editor | Jul 13, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Are the Democrats headed for their Little Bighorn, with President Joe Biden as Col. Custer? The wish, you suggest, is father to the thought. Yet, consider. On taking office, Biden held a winning hand. Three vaccines, with excellent efficacy rates, had been created and...