News from Around the South 10/3-10/10
Arkansas: Mauch Under Fire for Slavery Defense A Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives has a history of writing in support of slavery and the Confederacy, along with comparing Abraham Lincoln to Karl Marx. State Rep. Loy Mauch (R-Bismarck) wrote a...
Book Review
“WE HAVE THE WAR UPON US: THE ONSET OF THE CIVIL WAR, NOVEMBER 1860-APRIL 1861” By William J. Cooper, Knopf ($30). Blaming “Inflexible” Lincoln Misleading, Wrong More than 150 years after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, historians...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston Research Project to Map 200 Black Graves CHARLESTON, S.C. – State preservation leaders say a project that documented and mapped 200 Black burial sites is a big Read More