by editor | Apr 2, 2021 | Archive, Cartoon, Southern Partisan
The College of William & Mary’s historic campus — with all the complicated legacies it entails — serves as a microcosm of a larger national reckoning about when and how to leave behind symbols associated with the country’s history of racism and slaveholding. The...
by editor | Jun 2, 2020 | Archive, Cartoon, Southern Partisan
Construction of Charles Town’s first sea wall commenced in early 1704, as part of a massive plan to fortify the entire city. It was truly a civic process — most able-bodied residents helped. And, if they didn’t, they were threatened with jail. The colony’s governing...