News from Around the South 10/3-10/10
Arkansas: Mauch Under Fire for Slavery Defense A Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives has a history of writing in support of slavery and the Confederacy, along with comparing Abraham Lincoln to Karl Marx. State Rep. Loy Mauch (R-Bismarck) wrote a...
News from Around the South 9/27-10/3
Arkansas: Court Upholds Medical Marijuana Proposal The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a proposed ballot measure that, if successful, would make the state the first in the South to legalize medical marijuana. The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The...News from Around the South 9/20-9/26
Georgia: Kennessaw Group Brings to Light Cobb’s Civil War Roots By H.M. Cauley, for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution As historians, researchers and interested readers of Civil War lore will confirm, Cobb County has a wealth of connections to the conflict. For...
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“WE HAVE THE WAR UPON US: THE ONSET OF THE CIVIL WAR, NOVEMBER 1860-APRIL 1861” By William J. Cooper, Knopf ($30). Blaming “Inflexible” Lincoln Misleading, Wrong More than 150 years after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, historians...Obiter Dicta
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TEXAS:Texas education board approves controversial school curriculum changes The Brief The Republican-majority Texas State Board of Education approved revised high school social studies standards that alter how Islam and Christianity Read More