News From Around the South 12/4 to 12/11
FLORIDA: Residents Request Removal of Flag DeFuniak Springs, Fla. – Renewed controversy in one Panhandle town, surrounding the removal of Confederate flags, monuments and statues. News 13’s Peyton LoCicero reports that a group of locals want one particular...
Is flirting sexual harassment?
In 2003 a genetics paper revealed that one in 200 men alive in that year was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan (1162-1227). Khan was the Mongol emperor whose armies swept out of the north to conquer pretty much all of Asia. His successors took big chunks of Europe...
Field of Screams: Baseball Park May Cover Slave Graves
An abandoned baseball field in Tennessee might cover hundreds of Civil War-era slave graves. The Tennessean reported that an archaeological inspection of Greer Stadium in Nashville found a “high likelihood of human remains.” A preliminary review originally contracted...
Trump Against the World
WASHINGTON — It’s been another week crammed with President Donald Trump duking it out on Twitter. This week he sparred with Democratic congressional leaders, two national news organizations and even mixed it up with British Prime Minister Theresa May to a point...
News From Around the South 11/27 to 12/4
SOUTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Controversy at Small Town Parade The controversy over Confederate symbols in the South has made its way into a small town’s Christmas parade. A Southern heritage group called The Carolina Flaggers will be allowed to flaunt the...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