Economic mobility worse in South?
Americans pride themselves on their intergenerational mobility. Our nation’s exceptionalism is organized around the American dream: No matter where you come from and no matter who your parents are, you can rise to the top of the economic ladder, so long as you are...Smithsonian's Civil War
It’s only one weapon among the 5,700 in the firearms collection of the American History Museum, but it speaks to the Civil War in a very personal way. Under the watchful eye of curator David Miller, I hoist the 1863 Springfield rifle musket to my shoulder and feel its...News from Around the South 8/19-8/26
Florida: Controversy brewing over portrait of Robert E. Lee FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Lee County chapter of the NAACP wants to hold demonstrations because the county refuses to take down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee that hangs in the commissioners’ meeting...(CSA) Flag Football
The beautiful Confederate flag of Dixie is in the news again and… It is reported that a Southern Heritage group has purchased land in Richmond, Virginia to fly a 10-by-15 foot Confederate flag on Interstate 95 in the city. Susan Hathaway founder of the Virginia...Obiter Dicta
Was the passage by the House last Saturday and the Senate on Tuesday of the foreign aid package with money Read More
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