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ALABAMA: President Designates Three Civil Rights Sites as National Monuments As he approached his last week as the US President, Barack Obama designated three national monuments that represent post-Civil War Reconstruction and Civil Rights heritage. Announced...
Hollywood’s Civil War History
California is famous for the 1849 Gold Rush, but how many people realize that its gold paid for one-fourth of the Union’s Civil War expenses? The state’s important but sometimes overlooked role in the conflict gave West Hollywood a Civil War history of its own – and...
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FLORIDA: Film Document’s Florida’s Contribution to Confederacy COCOA, Fla. – Florida joined the Confederate States of America at the beginning of the Civil War, as third of the original seven states to secede from the Union, following Lincoln’s 1860...
Is ‘Speculation’ News?
At the dawn of 2017, let us offer a philosophical question for the news media. If the scourge of the new year is “fake news,” should we not concede that it’s not news to speculate about what will happen after a news event? The problem is, without...
Democrats Extinct in the South
Consider the political realignment of the South from blue to red complete. Kentucky Democrats lost control of the state house they had held on to for nearly a century — and with it, the party’s last Southern legislative chamber. The development was a year in the...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