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VIRGINIA: As Gun Rights Rally Looms, Richmond Residents Fear Another Charlottesville
RICHMOND, Va. — As gun rights activists, white nationalists [...]
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What I Ask of Romney and Obama
on September 6th, 2012 at 5:41 pmThe Republican Convention ended on the theme “Believe in America.” That sounded nice, but it was just another platitude. Mitt Romney’s speech was filled with platitudes: “We will honor America’s democratic ideals. … We’re united to preserve liberty.” Please. Liberals and conservatives have real differences. We should state them. America is going broke, and tough […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
According to a new poll by The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., 54 percent of likely voters believe President Obama does not deserve another term based on his economic record. With rising gas prices once again punishing working Americans and with fear in the air over unemployment, there is a very good chance that Obama […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
News from Around the South, 9/5-9/12
on September 12th, 2012 at 5:40 pmTennessee: Civil War cannons return to Memphis’ Confederate Park By Kevin McKenzie, Memphis Commercial Appeal Just in time for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, four cannons resembling those used during the War between the States were installed in Confederate Park in Downtown Memphis on Wednesday. Just as intended, the replica artillery immediately sparked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How Technology Shaped the Civil War
on September 13th, 2012 at 5:06 pm* Secession not only spurred rapid improvements in warships and weapons, but also led to advances in communications and medicine By James Marten, Scientific American Any Civil War buff is familiar with the technological advances of that era: the carnage caused when tactics failed to accommodate breech-loading rifled muskets and artillery pieces, the truly revolutionary […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Jan. 8, 1962, President John F. Kennedy wrote a letter celebrating the work of James Cardinal Gibbons, who died in 1921. Kennedy, who rarely discussed his Catholicism, did so while describing the Cardinal: “He nobly expresses the essential traditions of my church in the United States … the deep sympathy for the plight of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Sharpshooter 1862-1864, by Charles Phillips Charles Phillips takes his reader back to the days of the Nueces massacre, an intense and violent conflict between the Confederate soldiers and the German Texans of August of 1862 in his novel The Sharpshooter: 1862-1864. Like many other first-generation German immigrants living in Kinney County, Texas, Jurian Baecker did not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
News from Around the South 9/12-9/19
on September 19th, 2012 at 4:14 pmAlabama: Bedford statue still stirs controversy BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – Racist, murderer, or savior of the town? Nathan Bedford Forrest still stirs controversy in Selma, Alabama, where emotions are running high over plans to replace a monument honoring the Civil War officer and Ku Klux Klan founder. A bust of Forrest was stolen from a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Redefining Cotton As Protein
Cotton—a plant many Americans associate with the Deep South—arrived in Georgia, the first colony to produce cotton commercially, in 1734. After the development of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin in 1794, the production has only increased.
Ronnie [...]
UNC Faculty Opposes Silent Sam Settlement
UNC faculty has expressed opposition to the University’s $2.5 million settlement which gave the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million and Silent Sam.
A number of UNC faculty departments have released statements in opposition [...]