Heroes and Memory
When I first arrived in America a few years ago, one of the first things I noticed was the road name, Jefferson Davis Highway. For a moment, I wondered whether I was trapped in the 2004 mockumentary C.S.A: the Confederate States of America, where the South had won the...News from Around the South 7/22 – 7/29
Virginia: Confederate Marine Re-enactors Join Appomattox Show APPOMATTOX, Va. — Friday evening’s wind blew, catching the Confederate Marine flag at the head of a recreated Civil War campsite and whipping it about. The six tents surrounding the flag were...CSA Gravesites Costlier
On June 19, an array of top government officials gathered for the unveiling of a statue of Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century African-American man born a slave who rose to be a vice-presidential candidate. That politicians and the federal government continue to...News from Around the South 7/15 – 7/22
South Carolina: ‘Glory’ Battle, Soldiers Remembered SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. — Civil War re-enactors gathered on a wind-swept beach and marked the 150th anniversary Thursday of the famed attack by the black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry — a...Obiter Dicta
The approach of July 4 is making my heart hurt. Love of this country is deep-dyed in my soul, but Read More
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