Rethink Stereotypes of the South
“Why do so many people think the South is so bad?” one of my international students asked me this winter on the first day of a class I taught about Southern history and culture. “I think it’s pretty great here.” Lacking a good reply, “me too” was all I could muster....
News from Around the South 2/25 – 3/4
Alabama: Black Confederate Soldiers’ Stories Must Be Told HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — An attempt to squelch a little known part of African American history gave Edwin Kennedy a bigger microphone than he ever imagined 13 years ago. At the time, he had just seen a...
The Civil War & American Art
More Americans were killed in the American Civil War than in all the other wars of the 20th century put together. The late great art critic, Robert Hughes, waxed poetic about its impact on American art in his sweeping 1997 work, American Visions. “It swallowed up the...
Mississippi Ties Up Loose End
So you may have heard that last week Mississippi finally banned slavery. Now this is not to say that the state has been stuck in an Antebellum/Civil War timewarp for the past century and a half. But apparently there were a few oversights along the way. The...Obiter Dicta
“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy … She might become the dictatress of the world, But Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: This Day in History: July 10, 2015: Confederate flag removed from SC State House grounds COLUMBIA, SC (WCSC) – The Confederate Battle flag was removed from the South Read More