by editor | Dec 23, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Reuben Brigety II, the new leader of the University of the South, says if any history matters then it all does. It is why the small Christian liberal arts school perched on the western edge of Tennessee’s scenic Cumberland Plateau is laying bare its past, even...
by editor | Dec 22, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
If America were a company and not a country, we would have long ago dissolved the corporation, split the blanket, and gone our separate ways. What still holds this disputatious and divided people together? Consider. In announcing the $900 billion stimulus bill to deal...
by editor | Dec 21, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
TENNESSEE: Opinions Split on Sale of Confederate License Plates NASHVILLE, Tenn., (WKRN) — The Confederate flag is a symbol brought under the microscope recently. It has caused a close examination of American values and beliefs. It’s a symbol you can also choose to...
by editor | Dec 17, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
God works in strange ways. Last weekend, two friends and I were deeply moved when we saw a theatrical production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge...
by editor | Dec 16, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
While Grant was ready to strike and capture Vicksburg, it is important to understand the campaigning along the Mississippi River and in Tennessee. It was the strategic situation in the west in the spring of 1863 and Grant’s successful campaign against Vicksburg, it...
by editor | Dec 15, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
2020 will surely qualify as an “annus horribilis” in the history of the Republic. By New Year’s, one in every 1,000 Americans, 330,000, will be dead from the worst pandemic in 100 years. The U.S. economy will have sustained a blow to rival the worst...