Mississippi Ties Up Loose End

Mississippi Ties Up Loose End

by | Feb 26, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

So you may have heard that last week Mississippi finally banned slavery.  Now this is not to say that the state has been stuck in an Antebellum/Civil War timewarp for the past century and a half.  But apparently there were a few oversights along the way. The...
New Civil War Titles

New Civil War Titles

by | Jan 24, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

As the world becomes more connected through the Internet, it’s becoming easier for scholars to turn up new data about the Civil War, on which far more books have been written than about any other event in U.S. history. Libraries and museums are increasingly putting...
News from Around the South 12/3-12/10

News from Around the South 12/3-12/10

by | Dec 10, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Georgia: Union General Gets Civil War Historical Marker The Civil War was more than just a battlefield conflict. It affected nearly every aspect of people’s lives, but 90 percent of Georgia’s 1,000 Civil War markers were about battles and Confederate military leaders....
Slave states vs. free states, 2012

Slave states vs. free states, 2012

by | Oct 15, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

A century-and-a-half later, we’ve come full circle: the red-blue state divide falls along Confederate-Union lines. Every now and then someone highlights the overlap between today’s Republican states and the slave states of the former Confederacy.  As clichéd as...