News From Around the South 8/12 to 8/19
GEORGIA: State Democrats Embrace Slavery Reparations Proposal ATLANTA — Two of the top Democrats seeking Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat in 2020 are embracing a proposal to examine reparations for the descendants of slaves, a concept senior members of the party shied...
The Actress Who Become A Spy
In a photograph no bigger than a playing card, a woman dressed in military costume cradles a sword, staring confidently beyond the frame. Her name is Pauline Cushman, an actress turned Civil War spy whose story dances between the boundary dividing history and fiction....
China Is Our Greatest Threat
Ten weeks of protests, some huge, a few violent, culminated Monday with a shutdown of the Hong Kong airport. Ominously, Beijing described the violent weekend demonstrations as “deranged” acts that are “the first signs of terrorism,” and vowed a...
News From Around the South 8/5 to 8/12
NORTH CAROLINA: Shopkeeper Offered Chocolate to Those Who Burn Confederate Flag HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A local chocolate maker’s response to Confederate flag bearers has police and town leaders concerned about a greater risk for violence. On July 27, Matthew...
Welcome to Our Times
When the tumult and the shouting have died from the pitch occasioned by the El Paso and Dayton massacres, there may be stillness enough — for a short time, anyway — to accommodate a useful question. How come now? That would be the question. How come not 50 years ago?...Obiter Dicta
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More