News From Around the South 7/27 to 8/3
SOUTH CAROLINA: One of Beaufort’s best-known trees topples. Will its other half survive? One of Beaufort’s most famous and historic trees split in two over the weekend, with half of it falling to the ground with a crash heard around the Lowcountry. The towering live...
Why the Blanche Nomination Should Be Rejected
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is not qualified to be the attorney general of the United States because he has demonstrated a hopeless conflict between the rule of law — which he has taken an oath to support — and his sense of personal loyalty to President...
Following President George Washington’s footsteps through Salem and the Guilford battlefield
In the spring of 1791, President George Washington visited Salem and the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse as part of a tour of the southern U.S. that took him from Virginia to Georgia, according to Warren L. Bingham, author of a book about the trip....
Ending the Backlash
“Ending the Backlash on LGBTQI+ Issues” is the title of the report out this week from the respected liberal think tank The Center for American Progress. As you might expect, the Center report urges Democrats to stand firm in supporting transgender soldiers...
News From Around the South, 7/20 to 7/27
SOUTH CAROLINA: A ‘treasure hunt’ with a purpose: USC students seek clues to university’s untold past A ring of portable yellow barriers surrounds an active worksite at the head of the historic Horseshoe on the University of South Carolina campus. Inside, a handful of...Obiter Dicta
“The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They conferred against the Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Historic portraits telling the story of Black South Carolinians now online through USC library COLUMBIA — A young boy looks directly into the camera with his arms wrapped Read More