Battle of Nashville at 150

NASHVILLE — There’s still a gouge cut into the slope of Shy’s Hill in Nashville where Confederate soldiers hunkered down in a trench 150 years ago. It was the last big battle in the western theater of the Civil War, and the place where the Union army broke...

News From Around the South 11/3 – 11/10

MISSISSIPPI: State eyes Heritage Initiative Preserving Confederate, Colonel Reb Past By Steph Bazzle  If passed, a measure being considered for Mississippi’s 2016 ballots would make Christianity the state religion, English the official language, and, according to its...

REVIEW: "Clouds of Glory: Robert E. Lee"

A publisher once explained the First Law of Biography to novelist Nick Hornby: “They always increase in length, because the writer has to justify the need for a new one, and demonstrate that something previously undiscovered is being brought to the … party; and you...

News From Around the South 10/21 – 10/27

VIRGINIA: Museum Marches On Despite Confederate Flag  Danville’s inability to legally remove a Confederate flag from the lawn of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History is not stopping the museum’s new strategic plan and its upcoming sesquicentennial...

South's Best Civil War Battlegrounds

It’s impossible to deny the compelling narrative the Civil War still weaves into the culture of the South. A visit to former battlegrounds and sites where the war played out offers the visitor a gateway into why the issue remains important. Often, there are tour...