Late last month, the Supreme Court ruled on a challenge to a question that the Commerce Department announced it would [...]
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NORTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Wristbands Dumped After Mixup
Forsyth County said the Confederate flag wristbands were ordered by mistake. [...]
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News from Around the South for Week of 8/20-8/26
on August 23rd, 2012 at 10:59 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Alabama: Monument to Civil War General Sparks Controversy By Miranda Leitsinger, NBC News The renovation of a monument honoring a Civil War Confederate general, who was the first “Grand Wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan, is once more creating controversy in Selma, Ala., 11 years after protesters got it moved off of public property. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Did Slave Pilots Help or Hurt British Navy?
It might be one of the more intriguing mysteries behind the Battle of Sullivan’s Island, the 1776 Patriot victory in the Revolutionary War commemorated every June 28 as Carolina Day:
How did enslaved ship-pilots affect the [...]
The South’s Strangest Fourth of July
It began like many other Fourth of July celebrations Charleston held in the decades after the United States won its independence.
At 3 a.m., the traditional sound of cannon fire erupted from Citadel Green (what today [...]