Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson, noted scholar, historian and educator, created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became Black History Month in 1976. Woodson chose February because it coincided with the birthdays of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President...
News From Around the South 2/5 to 2/12
NORTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Could Fly Over Hillsborough HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A Southern heritage group based in Alamance County is talking with the owners of multiple Orange County sites about erecting a Confederate battle flag on their land. At least one...
Museum Seeks Slave ‘Ellis Island’ Experience
By the time South Carolina celebrates its next Black History Month, construction of the historic International African American Museum should be underway. The long-planned Charleston museum is slated to break ground this summer. Its opening is scheduled for 2020,...
The Southern Spy Network
Reliable Confederate spy records are hard to find. When Union troops were on their way to the South’s capital in Richmond, the Confederate Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin, panicked and burned every bit of them that he could find. Diligent historians have,...
Nunes Tackles the Deep State
That memo worked up in the Intel Committee of Chairman Devin Nunes may not have sunk the Mueller investigation, but from the sound of the secondary explosions, this torpedo was no dud. The critical charge: To persuade a FISA court to issue a warrant to spy on Trump...Obiter Dicta
The one thing you can’t make when you get old is old friends. Pam Fleischaker was one of my oldest Read More
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VIRGINIA: UVA Press cancels book critical of leading Southern food figures In early 2025, University of Virginia Press announced the forthcoming release of “The Strange Career of Cornbread Nationalism.” The Read More