News From Around the South 10/3 to 10/10
SOUTH CAROLINA: Bomb Squad Detonates Civil War Ordinance on Folly Beach CHARLESTON, S.C. — Residents in Charleston, James Island and on Folly Beach likely heard a small-scale explosion Sunday evening when bomb squad officials detonated a Civil War ordnance that...
The Mason-Dixon Line
In 1763-67 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed and marked most of the boundaries between Maryland, Pennsylvania and the Three Lower Counties that became Delaware. The survey, commissioned by the Penn and Calvert families to settle their long-running boundary...
Discrimination and Segregation
I was invited, along with several other American professors, to deliver lectures at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1979. Pieter Willem Botha was the prime minister, and apartheid, though becoming a bit relaxed, was the law of...
News From Around the South 9/26 to 10/3
FLORIDA: Confederate Flag Sparks Black Lives Matter Protest at High School BRADENTON, Fla.– Multiple Manatee County high schools came together in showings of protest Thursday after a Confederate flag was brought onto the Manatee High School campus on Wednesday...
Lester Holt Learns Lauer Lesson
Washington Post reporter Callum Borchers should win some kind of award for the worst pre-debate spin. He tried to defend NBC anchor and presidential debate host Lester Holt: “It turns out Holt is actually a registered Republican. Trump still might find things to...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