News from Around the South 1/14 – 1/21
Florida: Re-Enactors Celebrate Battle, Camp Life The American Civil War was probably pretty difficult for all who took part. But with all the issues the soldiers and noncombatants faced in the 1860s, they didn’t have to worry about car alarms blaring. Union and...
The Fading of the Old South
Politically speaking, we live by caricature. Particularly in the age of satellite TV news and Internet fulmination, the temptation is to melodrama. So I wasn’t terribly surprised to read a recent article in the online magazine Salon arguing that “even though it’s a...
News from Around the South 12/31 – 1/7
Alabama: Re-enactors Set to Reprise Cedar Bluff Raid ROME — Cannons will blast, cavalry will charge and infantry men will storm the fields in Cedar Bluff, Ala. this May — when Civil War re-enactors come together to portray Union Col. Abel Streight’s 1863...
Florida's Identity Crisis
Ask anyone north of the Mason Dixon Line or west of the Mississippi to name a state in the Deep South and see how long it takes for them to mention Florida. Fair warning: You should probably get a snack or something, it’s going to be a while. Florida is not often the...Obiter Dicta
President Donald Trump may be the smallest, meanest and most vengeful man to serve in the Oval Office. Every time Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Revolutionary War battlefield named one of 11 endangered sites in the US. Here’s why A Revolutionary War battlefield in South Carolina has been named one of the Read More