News from Around the South 8/19-8/26
Florida: Controversy brewing over portrait of Robert E. Lee FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Lee County chapter of the NAACP wants to hold demonstrations because the county refuses to take down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee that hangs in the commissioners’ meeting...News from Around the South 7/1 – 7/8
Virginia: Federal Judge Sides with Lexington over Confederate Flag Ban Lexington’s ban on flying the Confederate flag — and other non-governmental colors — from city-owned light poles does not violate a heritage group’s right of free speech, a federal appeals court...
Was Civil War About Slavery?
In the course of our conversation, Yacine Kout mentioned something else—an incident that had happened the previous spring at Eastern Randolph High School just outside Asheboro. On Cinco de Mayo, the annual celebration of Mexico’s defeat of French forces at the Battle...
Book Review
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:...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Revolutionary War battlefield named one of 11 endangered sites in the US. Here’s why A Revolutionary War battlefield in South Carolina has been named one of the Read More