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,...

News from Around the South 12/16 to 12/23

FLORIDA: School District Will Rename High School Named for KKK leader JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Following a petition drive that garnered more than 160,000 signatures, a Florida school district will rename a high school whose current name commemorates a Confederate...

The Civil War in One Chart

This chart, digitized by the Library of Congress, depicts major battles, troop losses, skirmishes, and other events in the American Civil War. (Click on the image to arrive at a zoomable version, or visit the LOC’s website.) The “Scaife Synoptical Method,” advertised...

News from Around the South 8/5 – 8/12

Virginia: Confederate Flag to be flown by I-95 A Confederate heritage group has announced plans to fly a Confederate Flag on I-95, the main highway running the length of the East Coast. The group Virginia Flaggers said that the Confederate Flag would be flown just...

The Fall of North Carolina?

Every Monday since April, thousands of North Carolina residents have gathered at the state Capitol to protest the grotesque damage that a new Republican majority has been doing to a tradition of caring for the least fortunate. Nearly 700 people have been arrested in...