Last week, the White House legal counsel wrote to congressional leaders stating President Donald Trump’s legal views of the impeachment [...]
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SUFFOLK, Va. – What lies beneath? That’s the big question a group of archeologists [...]
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on March 25th, 2013 at 4:36 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Tennessee: Compromise Sought after Memphis Strikes Confederate Names from Parks MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Memphis officials are proposing a compromise after the City Council stripped Confederacy names from three city parks. Mayor A C Wharton and Councilman Jim Strickland held out the olive branch Wednesday, saying the city needs to unite and get on to more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Cities Contextualize Confederate Statues
In this May 19, 2017 photo, a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed from Lee Circle in New Orleans. AP PHOTO
In Franklin, Tennessee, a lifesize statue of a Confederate [...]
Women Edited Out of Civil War
Statues of men in uniform, Union and Confederate, astride their big horses, still dot the landscape of the North and the South: Brave men, no doubt, but where were the women during those bloody years? Consider not [...]