News From Around the South 11/3 – 11/10

MISSISSIPPI: State eyes Heritage Initiative Preserving Confederate, Colonel Reb Past By Steph Bazzle  If passed, a measure being considered for Mississippi’s 2016 ballots would make Christianity the state religion, English the official language, and, according to its...

News From Around the South 10/21 – 10/27

VIRGINIA: Museum Marches On Despite Confederate Flag  Danville’s inability to legally remove a Confederate flag from the lawn of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History is not stopping the museum’s new strategic plan and its upcoming sesquicentennial...

News From Around the South 9/22 – 9/29

Georgia: $1.1M Expansion Underway for Southern Museum KENNESAW, Ga. — During a groundbreaking Friday, Mayor Mark Mathews said the city of Kennesaw is seeing another of its dreams fulfilled. The Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History kicked off a $1.1...

Creating an Irish Civil War Widow

On the 20th July 1864, the 33rd New Jersey Infantry of the Army of the Cumberland found themselves at Peachtree Creek, outside Atlanta. They were gathered on a hill some 300 yards in front of the main Union position acting as an outpost for their brigade. Their...

Flag Dogs Boggs

WASHINGTON — One of President Barack Obama’s most beleaguered judicial nominees, Michael Boggs, finally got his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. And it wasn’t pretty. One by one, for nearly two hours, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee laid into Boggs...