Book Review: Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War
In the summer of 1857, abolitionist Rev. John Rankin, at a meeting of the National Emancipation Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, advocated for compensated emancipation as the only viable way to end slavery in the United States. “Life was more precious than money, and…...
News From Around the South, 10/27 to 11/3
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Confederate statue restored as part of Trump’s efforts to reshape how history is told WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that demonstrators took down during...
Shoot First, Ask Questions When?
The United States is engaged in summary executions on the high seas. That bald fact is being obscured by talk of drug interdiction and war powers and whether we’re certain the drugs on those boats were headed for the United States or somewhere else. Let’s...
American Folklore Is More Than Just Scary Stories; It Carries a Value System
DONEGAL, Pennsylvania — It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You’re hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 minutes until sunset, and you have just over a mile to go,...
News From Around the South 10/20 to 10/27
SOUTH CAROLINA: Sword swap: Statue of general who died after Battle of Camden briefly disarmed for repair A statue in Maryland’s capital honoring Maj. Gen. Baron Johann DeKalb is looking a little different lately. The 139-year-old bronze statue on the south side of...Obiter Dicta
Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: A hidden treasure was buried in Charleston decades ago. A Summerville man thinks he’s found it MOUNT PLEASANT — For over 40 years, a 19-line poem has intrigued Read More