A CSA Library?

by | Jun 4, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

This spring will be remembered, by history junkies at least, for the opening of a major new institution, one named after a polarizing leader, devoted to a divisive period, subsidized by taxpayers and stationed in the South. I’m not talking about the presidential...

The Battle of Latta

by | Apr 23, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

If you want to get technical about it, the Civil War has been over for 148 years. Still, sporadic fighting breaks out occasionally — as it did in a South Carolina school district over the right to wear a Confederate flag to school. When the encyclopedia of student...
Surveying Emancipation

Surveying Emancipation

by | Mar 20, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

President Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863 lent new urgency to the question of “what shall we do with the Negroes.” What had been only a possibility a few months before — the freeing of more than 3 million slaves still behind...
New Mind of South

New Mind of South

by | Mar 13, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

“The New Mind of the South” By Tracy Thompson. Simon & Schuster, 263 pps., $26. Whatever you think the South represents, it is Tracy Thompson’s contention that it’s morphing into something else. “The New Mind of the South” is her collection of essays on what a...