News from Around the South 1/21 – 1/28

News from Around the South 1/21 – 1/28

South Carolina: Hunley Legend Altered by New Discovery For nearly 150 years, the story of the Hunley’s attack on the USS Housatonic has been Civil War legend. And it has been wrong. Scientists have discovered a piece of the Confederate submarine’s torpedo still...
Unknown Faces of the Civil War

Unknown Faces of the Civil War

In the song “Home,” Phillip Phillips sings, “If you get lost, you can always be found.” That’s exactly what the Museum of the Confederacy hopes. Nine of its photographs from the Civil War are unidentified. The museum calls them...
News from Around the South 10/19-10/26

News from Around the South 10/19-10/26

Florida: Confederate Flag at School Angers Mom A South Florida mom is not happy with a history exhibition at her child’s elementary school. Tina Meadows is asking Sunset Lakes Elementary School in Miramar to remove a Confederate flag on display in a school...