by editor | Feb 2, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The little Episcopalian prayer book did not have the easiest journey to the Rev. Robert Alves’ private collection. “This one has actually been in the ocean,” says, Alves, holding up a leather-bound copy of the Confederate Book of Common Prayer. In...
by editor | Jan 31, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
No one gets anywhere by trying to roll Donald Trump’s immigration order and its varied implications into a spitball for hurling hard and fast at the Other Side. That is not to split the difference, in namby-pamby fashion, between supporters of the present...
by editor | Jan 31, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
TEXAS: Texas Coast Site of First Ship to Ship Battle President Lincoln had sent Union vessels to block the ports of Galveston, Texas and Sabine Pass, Texas to stop the shipments of goods to Confederate forces in December 1863. On January 1, 1863, Confederate forces...
by editor | Jan 27, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
There is much to cheer about President Trump’s first decisions as president. Conservatives are almost certainly going to love his Supreme Court pick, his stepped-up efforts to deport criminal aliens, the approval of two oil pipelines stubbornly blocked by the...
by editor | Jan 27, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Recently a batch of rare Civil War maps were released by the Library of Congress, with many showing what Texas dealt with during the War Between the States. Texas’ Gulf Coast locale meant that places like Galveston, Corpus Christi, Aransas Pass and Port Lavaca were...
by editor | Jan 24, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
One wonders just how far spineless college administrators will go when it comes to caving in to the demands of campus snowflakes. For those unfamiliar with the term “snowflakes,” it is increasingly being used to characterize college students easily...