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...

Books: Matthew Brady's Portaits

Although “Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation” is billed as a biography, it actually reads as a by-now familiar story of technological innovation and entrepreneurship, parallel in an eerie way to the communication revolution we are experiencing in this...

Heroes and Memory

When I first arrived in America a few years ago, one of the first things I noticed was the road name, Jefferson Davis Highway. For a moment, I wondered whether I was trapped in the 2004 mockumentary C.S.A: the Confederate States of America, where the South had won the...

Waiting for the Robert E. Lee

Winston Churchill once said, “The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.” The Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted their 118th National Reunion during the month of July, 2013 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Christine Barr, an...