by editor | Apr 19, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
In February of 2015, Kathleen Purvis, the food editor of the Charlotte Observer, drove to Birmingham, Alabama, to attend Food Media South, an annual symposium. The keynote session, “Hey, You, Pitch Me Something,” was meant to be a friendly wind-down to a weekend of...
by editor | Apr 18, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
As a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains — over some of the highest hurdles and in a very short span of time — of any racial group in mankind’s history. What’s the evidence? If one totaled up the earnings of black Americans and considered...
by editor | Apr 17, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
LOUISIANA: Restoration on Horizon for Civil War Lighthouse If you take a 21/2-mile drive down a bumpy gravel road near the Cheniere LNG terminal, you’ll dead-end at the historic Sabine Pass Lighthouse, which rises 75 feet above the marshy grasses of Southwest...
by editor | Apr 13, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
WASHINGTON — It looks like former President Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice will get a reprieve. With all the hullabaloo from President Donald Trump’s military action last week in Syria’s … do we call it Syria’s civil war or...
by editor | Apr 13, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
On April 12, 1861, the bloodiest conflict in American history began when Confederate forces attacked a Union-controlled fort in South Carolina. It was the first act of aggression mounted by the Confederacy, which had formed just a few months earlier. At the time,...
by editor | Apr 13, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The women of Richmond were hungry, and so were their children. In April 1863, the Civil War had been raging for two years. A hard winter gave way to a reluctant spring, and food was scarce. The war had disrupted planting throughout Virginia, troop movements filled the...