News from Around th South, 1/27 to 2/3

  Virginia: Fanmous Civil War House On Market FREDERICKSBURG, Va. —  A house with a historic résumé that includes a photograph taken of it by Mathew Brady after the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862 is easily a consensus choice for the annals of city lore....

Yasukuni & The South

On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council held an open debate on the theme of “war, its lesson, and the search for a permanent peace.” Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, addressing the Security Council, laid out the core of the...

News from Around the South 1/6 to 1/13

  South Carolina: SCV Speaker Celebrates Lee’s Life AIKEN, S.C.– Robert E. Lee was as close to nobility as America could produce, guest speaker Chris Sullivan told a group of about 40 Sons of Confederate Veterans members and family members on Saturday...

A Name Under Siege

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On the fourth floor of the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, on a top shelf just to the left of the map collection, lie more than a dozen books that profile one famous Memphian: Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. There are the old ones,...

News from Around the South 12/31 – 1/6

North Carolina: Female Reenactors Celebrate Fort Fisher Anniversary WILMINGTON, N.C. — While Confederate soldiers attempted to defend Fort Fisher in the waning months of the Civil War, most of the women in their lives had spent years keeping the farms going,...